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

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~ Credits ~
Songs:
1. J. Cole - Wet Dreamz (INSTRUMENTAL)