Africa Image Gallery

by Media Desk Published on: 9th November 2019

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Genetic and paleontological findings have concluded that Africa is the birthplace of the entire human race. Africa is often thought of as a continent rich in natural beauty and culture. However, little is known or understood about the technology and innovation which was present throughout its history and the role in which it contributed to what we have today.

Atlas of Africa (Source)

: Forgotten: The ancient city of Chinguetti, in the west-African nation of Mauritania, is home to around 6,000 ancient manuscripts

: Senufo Korhogo (Boron) Cloth, Ivory Coast

: Mosque of Bobo-Dioulasso

: Ghana Larabanga Mosque

: Timbuktu seen from a distance by Heinrich Barth’s party, 1853

: Ruins of Great Ghana

: Ghana Larabanga Mosque

: Mosque in Ghana

: Ancient Songhai man

: Gonja chiefs and elders at the Volta River project travelling exhibition(1950)

: This is a close up view of a famous map drawn by Abraham Cresques in 1375 in Europe, which depicts Emperor Mansa Musa

: Mali Empire and surrounding states, c. 1625

: An early illustrated work dealing with the school of Salerno. The cover shows Constantine the African lecturing to the school. From Anastasiuset al., Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum

: Room full of manuscripts, National Archives Kaduna, Nigeria

: View of Timbuktu, drawn by Martin Bernatz (1802–1878) after a sketch by Heinrich Barth (1821-1865)

: A marabout or Muslim religious leader writing an amulet for a widow. P.D. Boilat, Esquisses sénégalaises, etc. (Paris, 1853). British Library, 10096.h.9.

: West African manuscripts on a range of subjects

: Pages from a Hausa Ajami manuscript by Husaini Bukar Salihu on subjects ranging from celestial positions to medical treatments. © Boston University Libraries

: Pages from a Hausa Ajami manuscript by Husaini Bukar Salihu on subjects ranging from celestial positions to medical treatments. © Boston University Libraries

: Pages from a Hausa Ajami manuscript by Husaini Bukar Salihu on subjects ranging from celestial positions to medical treatments. © Boston University Libraries

: Gate of Marrakesh, 1919

: Medina (old city) bazaar, Marrakesh

: Medina of Marrakesh

: Aksum Quarry for Obelisks

: Idrisi Cairo Manuscript; depicting East Africa (bottom), Socotra (left) and Kanbalu (right)

: Kerma ancient city

: Aerial view of Great Enclosure and Valley Complex

: Old Towns of Djenné (Mali)

: A manuscript showing a table of astronomical information, Timbuktu

: Dufuna Canoe

: Mtepe on the beach at Zanzibar, circa 1890

: al-Azhar University, Cairo

: Hausa people 1902

: Hausa Ajami manuscript

: Sultan of Zinder’s palace courtyard, Niger, 1906

: Books at the Djenne Manuscript Library

: Young girl reading the Qurʾān, Ibadan, Nigeria

: Al-Azhar University founded in 970 CE

: Photo of residents of Sokoto 1900

: The Foundations of Justice for Legal Guardians, Governors, Princes, Meritorious Rulers, and Kings (Usman dan Fodio), Sokoto 1754-1817

: View of Kano, Nigeria, 1850s; sketch by Dr. Heinrich Barth

: View of Kano, Nigeria, 1850s; sketch by Dr. Heinrich Barth

: Two Nigerian men reading and learning – from E. H. Duckworth (1893-1972) Photograph Collection

: Abuja National Mosque

: Students in a science class celebrating their graduation, Nigeria – from E. H. Duckworth (1893-1972) Photograph Collection

: Nigerian man using theodolite on tripod – from E. H. Duckworth (1893–972) Photograph Collection

: “The images were captured by Edward Harland Duckworth, who served as Inspector of Education in Nigeria from 1930 to 1944, and collated into an album by his friend Henry Svory. This picture shows a group of men outside an ancient settlement”

: Sufi women in west Africa – Seyda Zeynabu Mbaj during Hadrah by Joseph Hill

: A young woman in Nigeria. Picture: Lindsay Mgbor/DFID

: Supposedly imaginary potrait of Nana Asma’u

: Nigerian students by Andrew Esiebo/MSH Nigeria

: A potrait of a Nigerian woman by a Nigerian Artist, Obi Nwaegbeis

: A giraffe from the ninth-century naturalist al-Jahiz’s Book of Animals, which Marwa Elshakry notes in Reading Darwin in Arabic ‘was frequently likened to Darwin’s Origin of Species’

: Qatar Stamp of Al-Jahiz

: Imaginary potrait of Al-Jahiz

: Illustrations from Kitab Al Hayawan (Book of Animals) of Al-Jahiz

: Page from the Book of Animals by African Arab naturalist and evolutionist al Jahiz. Kitab al Hayawan (Book of Animals). Ninth Century. Basra. by Abu Uthman Al-Jaahiz