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Sick African Weapons | Animated History of Africa

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Turns out that Africa is a big place and has a lot of cool weapons. I don't even care if they were effective.
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Sources:
Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (1937). Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Journal of the Royal African Society, Vol. 8, No. 32 (Jul., 1909), pp. 337-356
Ball, Donald B. (1996) "Notes On West African Crossbow Technology," African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 1.
Atkinson, David. “Swords and Knives.” Ngombe Ngulu Sword 1 (Congo) | Swords and Knives | David Atkinson, atkinson-swords.com/collection-by-region/africa/central-africa/ngala-execution-sword-congo.html.
“Kpinga (1915.45.1).” Web.prm.ox.ac.uk, Pitt Rivers Museum, web.prm.ox.ac.uk/weapons/index.php/tour-by-region/africa/africa/arms-and-armour-africa-18/index.html.
Laband, John. “'Fighting Stick of Thunder': Firearms and the Zulu Kingdom: The Cultural Ambiguities of Transferring Weapons Technology.” Taylor & Francis, 26 Nov. 2014, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/0729247314Z.00000000040.
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Rider, Ethan. “Throwing Throwing Knives.” ERTribal, ertribal.com/index.php/addenda/throwing-throwing-knives.
“Stabbing Axe (1943.6.126).” Web.prm.ox.ac.uk, Pitt Rivers Museum, web.prm.ox.ac.uk/weapons/index.php/tour-by-region/oceania/africa/arms-and-armour-africa-35/index.html.
Thompson, Avery. “This Three-Bladed Throwing Knife Will Never Miss.” Popular Mechanics, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2018, www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a28235/three-bladed-throwing-knife-kpinga/.
Note on Zande weapons: Because the Zande were really just a mix of a bunch of ethnic groups that the Ambomu tribe conquered, it’s sometimes hard to know exactly what weapons they created and used themselves and what weapons were “borrowed” by them or used by their multi-ethnic subjects. The makrigga and manbeli are especially fuzzy in this regard.
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