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3 years agoKujichagulia (Self-Determination): Defining Ourselves 3 years ago · 8 Comments-
“Libraries have been deliberately or accidentally destroyed or badly damaged. Sometimes a library is purposely destroyed as a form of cultural cleansing.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries
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Shohei Sato (2017) ‘Operation Legacy’: Britain’s Destruction and Concealment of Colonial Records Worldwide, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45:4, 697-719,
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Unfortunately, in approaching the history of Haussaland and Bornu , we are met in both cases by the fact that their records were purposely destroyed at the beginning of the nineteenth century by Fulani conquerors in Haussaland, and by the new dynasty of the Kanemyin in Bornu.
– A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan with an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria. Flora Shaw (1905) pg 236
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Sultan Bello, the commander of the victorious Fulani, while he permitted and presumably encouraged the destruction of the Haussa records, so far showed his appreciation of the importance of history as to compile from his own study of documents lost to us, an account of the Haussa States, in which some
truth may be assumed to mingle with the presentment of facts coloured to suit the Fulani point of view .
– A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan with an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria. Flora Shaw (1905) pg 236&237
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Several times have the national archives at Washington suffered by the devouring element. In 1800, when the buildings of the war department were destroyed, and twice subsequently more or less injured. In 1814, the british burned the public buildings destroying the national library of 3,000 volumes as well as many of the public archives in 1833; the treasury buildings burned in 1836; the general post office and patent office were destroyed with almost their entire contents including many thousand patent models drawings and descriptions
– Journal of Proceedings, Wisconsin Legislature Assembly (1882) pg 103
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In a group of bronze figures I saw dressed europeans slaughtering natives, the latter being bound with their hands clasped as in prayer and kneeling; heads of other natives were depicted lying about on the ground
– Great Benin; Its Customs, Art and Horrors, Henry Ling Roth (1903) pg 218What the enemy mislables “art” is part of our recorded history
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On this band, there are an upper and lower series of ornaments in relief. The upper series consists of four faces: that on the front being probably of a Negro with the tribal marks on the forehead and that on the back being of a european, both faces(of the Negro) being in full and boldly and clearly executed, while the two faces on either side are of europeans, flat, poorly executed, and in profile with the mouth curiously twisted into full face.
– Great Benin; Its Customs, Art and Horrors, Henry Ling Roth (1903) pg 219
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/africa/book-bunk-kenya-library-renovations-africa-spc-intl/index.html another “operation legacy” library burning project orchestrated by british
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