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« on: December 24, 2016, 11:50:51 AM »

"When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet." - Ron Eglash

(these designs can be found in north, south, east and west Africa, supporting the view that there is some degree of cultural unity across the continent as Diop speculated)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n36qV4Lk94
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