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Summer Fun: Drums at the ready
An activity for families and children inspired by the drums on display in the Sudan and the Mahdiyya exhibition. -
Summer Fun: Drums at the ready
An activity for families and children inspired by the drums on display in the Sudan and the Mahdiyya exhibition. -
Online Seminar for Newvic African Studies Centre
This discussion between Alan Kunna (History Lecturer and Foundation Learning Manager) and Nicola Stylianou was part of a series of seminars organised by the Newvic (Newham Sixth for college) African Studies Centre. The centre aims to 'equip teachers with the skills and knowledge to teach students about the history of Africa, doing away with a tradition of learning about this diverse continent through the lens of European colonialism.' A video of the discussion is available on the Newvic website. -
Three African Kings Visit Brighton in 1895
An educational project to develop online resources for Brighton & Hove primary and secondary schools focusing on the story of the Three Kings of Botswana and their visit to Brighton and Sussex in 1895 as part of their visit to the UK. -
'The Origins, Development and Use of Banners During the Mahdia',
The use of banners by followers of the Mahdīandthe Khalīfa ʿAbdullāhi was an inheritance from Sudan’s Sufi tradition, in which flags were a public expression of individual or collective adherence to a ṭarīqa, or order. ‘Each ṭarīqa,’ wrote Ali Saleh Karrar, ‘had its own standard or flag, rāya, which ... was prominently displayed in the internal and public ceremonies of the orders.’ During the daily zikr, a collective chanting of prayers, invocations and Koranic quotations, the standard of the ṭarīqa’s founding leader was raised at the centre ofa large circle of worshippers. -
“Women Under the Mahdiyya"
"The role of women in Sudan during the Mahdiya (1881-99) is one of the most neglected areas in modern studies of the period. Women rarely merit mention unless marriage to an influential personality enables a strategic alli-ance between different communities. As we shall see, however, contemporary sources – both Sudanese and foreign – give us fascinating insights into the social activities and behaviour of free women, within and outside the Mahdiya elite, and even of female slaves." -
Neil Parsons
Neil has been an advisor to Brighton Museum on their work with the Willoughby Collection, providing historical insights and helping navigate archives relating to Willougby. -
The Willoughby Collections Catalogue
From the outset of the project Winani Thebele was keen to have a printed catalogue of the collections in Brighton and over the last year she has been working with designers and the rest of the MAC team to put this catalogue together. We were keen that the collections were made as widely accessible as possible in Botswana and this is one strategy for achieving that (see alsoThen We Were Bechuana). The catalogue reflects the work we have done, provides images and brief details of the collection and introduces the exhibition at the Khama Memorial Museum. We have also included a section on what we found in other archives relating to Willoughby and a short biography of Willoughby, we hope that this will be useful to researchers who come after us. [NSty] -
Simple wooden hair pin with small carved head consisting of two conical shapes
Simple wooden hair pin with small carved head consisting of two conical shapes. [NSty 08/2021] -
Ondunga
Small round dark brown coloured nut, used for rattles and pendants -
Millet seed head
Dried head of pearl millet, shaped like a bullrush, with of hundreds of small millet grains with brown casings. There is a short length of stalk still attached.