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📣 New special issue :
"Cold Cases? The Archives of Archaeology as Sources of the African Past"
under the supervision of Léa Roth (@lea-roth.bsky.social), Gérard Chouin and Chloé Capel
9 exciting articles... to be followed here with more developed posts.
journals.openedition.org/afriques/5489
Beginning with her overview article, "African and Oceanian Objects in French Museums," @transcrireada.bsky.social ( @cnrs.fr ) has introduced us to several vital digital humanities initiatives focused on preserving African history and languages, including:
📺 La présentation des carnets d'Antoine d'Abbadie et du manuscrit 114 est visible sur la chaine YT de l'@INHA_Fr , avec Anaïs Wion, @VanessaDesclaux et @BoscTiesse.
Belle prestation technique de l'équipe des Trésors de Richelieu, merci !
📌Va paraître chez @cnrseditions.bsky.social
📍Royautés📍
✍️Fanny Cosandey, Elie Haddad, Pascal Buresi, Stéphane Péquinot, Corinne Lefèvre, Corinne Péneau, Radu Paun, Marie-Laure Derat
📅 18 septembre 2025
Collection(s) | Histoire, Broché 480 pages
Clélia Coret - Écrire l'histoire sur la côte est-africaine au XIXe siècle
Pouvoirs, territoires et usages du passé
À paraître le 26 février aux Éditions de la Sorbonne
Le mythe tenace d'une colonisation qui aurait "couté cher" dissipé en 3 minutes par l'historienne Camille Lefebvre.
CfP : Les langues d’Afrique dans les péninsules ibérique et italienne : usages, circulations, apprentissages, représentations (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)
pour une JE le 25 sept. 2026.
Deadline le 15 mars 26
#linguistique #AfricanHistory #translation #diplomatic
calenda.org/1357230https...
In the service of the Ethiopian state, he was arguably the first Catholic Oromo royal scribe and a revered adviser to King Susǝnyos and the Jesuit missionaries. Ṭino’s life and times represent one of the distinctive cases of Oromo’s integration into the state apparatus.
Plan de l'article
Drawing on 1ary sources, the study situates Ṭino'life within the earliest encounters of an Oromo individual with the Ethiopian court, the Jesuit missionaries, and the Orthodox Church. Ṭino’s transformation from his Oromo origins to his martyrdom as a Catholic demonstrates his multiple identities.
Résumé en français de l'article.
The royal court of Ethiopia was attracting talented elites from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This study reconstructs the story of Ṭino Fäyissa, also known as Täklä Śǝllase, an Oromo intellectual who rose to the ranks of the Ethiopian court, near Lake Ṭana, at the beg. of the 17th c.
📣 "Oromo Court Intellectual, Catholic Martyr: Ṭino’s Negotiation of Identity, Faith and Power, 1600s–1638"
by Awegichew Amare (Gondar Univ.)
is online !
#Ethiopia #17th-century #KingSusenyos
#catholicism #translation
journals.openedition.org/afriques/5409
Pour quelques semaines, chaque vendredi, je propose dans l’émission de @xaviermauduit.bsky.social sur @franceculture.fr une chronique sur l’histoire de l’Afrique.
3 minutes pour raconter l’histoire du Sahel et du Sahara et comment on l’écrit aujourd’hui.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Prochaine séance du séminaire Manuscrits en Méditerranée @irht-cnrs.bsky.social jeudi 12 février @campuscondorcet.bsky.social avec Korshi Dosoo, Les parchemins magiques coptes du Collège de France manuscrits.hypotheses.org/8466
Également accessible en ligne
#papyrus #magic #coptic
Une étape de franchie dans la finalisation du projet MSS-ABBADIE (Quadriennal Recherche, BnF, 2020-23) : le dépôt des transcriptions de 5 des carnets d'Antoine d'Abbadie dans Nakala !
@huma-num.bsky.social
@labnf.bsky.social
@vanessadesclaux.bsky.social
nakala.fr/collection/1...
"A truly sensational find" made by my friend and colleague Adrian C. Pirtea 👀👇
#Syriac
#ChristianArabic
#ChristianEast
In our new post, @transcrireada.bsky.social introduces the work of the Langarchiv project at IMAF Paris, which trains graduate students to write Wikipedia articles on African intellectuals and historical sources, addressing the encyclopedia's uneven representation of African history.
Link below ⬇️
remise de médaille à Marie Laure Derat à l'institut du Monde Arabe
Marie Laure Derat (Orient & Méditerranée) reçoit aujourd'hui la médaille d'argent du CNRS pour son travail d'historienne et d'archéologue sur l'Ethiopie chrétienne médiévale. C'est une grande fierté pour la communauté et une juste récompense pour son travail de longue haleine.
Promotional graphic for a new book from British Academy Publishing titled "The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms: The Tomb ibn al-Mukhtar of the Songhay Empire and the Tarikh al-fattash of the Caliphate of Hamdullahi," authored by Mauro Nobili, Zachary Wright, and A. Diakite. The image shows the book cover featuring an ancient manuscript page.
A new volume in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms presents a new reading of West African history from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries based on close analysis of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu and other regions.
https://bit.ly/3Jeb8cm
Elara Bertho
New post by @transcrireada.bsky.social introducing the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), led and developed by @fmadore.bsky.social 📚 An open-access #database of 14,000+ documents, newspaper articles, recordings, and photographs relating to Islam and Muslims in West Africa.
🔗 tinyurl.com/jvu2wzd6
Avant le 30 novembre, soumettez vos propositions pour participer au webinaire 2025-26 de REDAfrica.
"La culture matérielle dans les pays africains de langue officielle portugaise et leurs diasporas"
redafricas.hypotheses.org/1018
Exciting book : "Bishops and Bishoprics in Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia (4th-13th c.)"
It compare the processes of Christianization and the influences of the anti-Chalcedonian Patriarchate of Alexandria in the Christian institutions of Egypt, Nubia & Ethiopia.
www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?s...
@mprovencalle.bsky.social
@univrouen.bsky.social
Mots-clés : relation de voyage, Villault de Bellefond, légende, Côte de l’Or, Akan
Keywords: travel account, Villault de Bellefond, legend, France, Gold Coast, Akan, Gulf of Guinea
Géographique : France, golfe de Guinée
conclusion of the article
It then evolved to become a tool in the fight against the Dutch monopoly that had been established, particularly in the kingdom of Eguafo. Villault de Bellefond would have taken up and enriched this legend, of which he became aware during his visit to the region.
Jean-Baptiste d’Anville, « Carte de la Côte de Guinée et du pays », 1729
This article develops another hypothesis: this legend would have been elaborated by Africans living on the Gold Coast in the early 17th c. to attract the French to the region and put an end to the Portuguese monopoly.
early historiography on this text
Then, the Normans made numerous voyages to West Africa until the beg. of the 15th c.
Charles de La Roncière (1925) and Raymond Mauny (1950) consider that Villault de Bellefond wrote in order to support Colbert's colonial project in Africa and labelled his narration a legend.
Summary of the article
In 1669, the Frenchman Nicolas Villault de Bellefond published a travel account entitled "Relation des costes d’Afrique appelées Guinée". It reports in great detail that the Normans passed Cape Bojador as early as 1364, i.e. almost 70 years before the Portugueses.
New article : "In search of African voices in European narratives: Nicolas Villault de Bellefond’s travel account and the legend of French priority in West Africa (17th century)"
by Matthieu Provençalle (Rouen Univ.)
#GoldCoast #Akan #GulfofGuinea
journals.openedition.org/afriques/5313
