African Swords

Welcome to a new series on African Weapons and Armies! Hope you guys enjoy these videos, I'm not sure how often I'll be updating this series, but hopefully I'll have one for every main series video out. Sources: Ethiopia Sources: The Book of the Sword - Richard Francis Burton (WARNING, RACIST UNDERTONES) Ten thousand wonderful things - Edmund Fillinamd King (WARNING, RACIST UNDERTONES) Armies of the Adowa Campaign - By Sean McLachlan The Encyclopedia of the Sword - By Nick Evangelista The Art of Attack and the Development of Weapons: from the Earliest Times... - By H. S. Cowper: (WARNING, LOTS OF FALSE INFORMATION) Ashante Sources: African Art And Leadership - By Douglas Fraser University of Australia - African Art History Studies Cloth as Metaphor - By G.F. Kojo Arthur British Museum Book of the Sword - By Richard Francis Burton (Also contains information regarding the Ashanti): Central African Sources: A History of Weapons: Crossbows, Caltrops, Catapults, & Lots of Other Things - By John O'Bryan Atkinson swords.com Springfieldmuseums.org Britannica.com - https://www.britannica.com/place/Cong... Blades of Beauty and Death - Barbara Winston Blackmun and Jacques Hautelet Ngola: The Weapon As Authority Identity, and Ritual Object in Sub-Saharan Africa - Norman Hurst: Shona Sources: Islamic and Native Weapons of Colonial Africa, 1800 - 1960 Shona-English Name Dictionary - Elliah Chakanetsa Kapezi Da'mon Stith:    / @damonstith   Description: Want to join a discord where you can argue with me and my friends about stuff?   / discord   ~ Credits ~ Songs: 1. J. Cole - Wet Dreamz (INSTRUMENTAL)