African students legally registered in Ukrainian universities, who are fleeing the conflict, are banned from crossing the Polish border with other refugees. We need to welcome these young scholars in Europe, now and unconditionally. Stop the non sense.
Gérard L. F. Chouin
2,315 posts
Heritage Expert with Expertise France and GMMB
Associate Professor of African History
Co-director of the Ife-Sungbo Archaeological Project
- Meet Stanley O. Nwosu, supervisor and recorder of our excavations at Ita Yemoo. Stanley got his undergraduate training at UI and is currently a graduate student in amthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. We has been working together since 2021.
- Replying to @glchouinI will never forget that my doctor in Ghana in the 1990s was a fabulous young man trained in Kiev and married to a Moldavian nurse. A fantastic doctor and surgeon. Thinking of them right now.
- Today, we analyzed this pot found in 2024 in the Edun-Ide compound. We aee yet to study the content.
- July 12, Arte: documentary film on Ile-Ife featuring many of our great Nigerian colleagues and the Team of the Ife-Sungbo Archaeological Project. Film is multilingual with sub-titles in English.
00:00 - Work ended today. We finished mapping all the new features. Tomorrow we shall draw profiles.
- The 8th sesson of the Ife-Sungbo Archaeological Project has started.
- Replying to @eranAbamieWriting systems are not a must to organize a complex society. Orality has its own logics.
- Meet Prof. Amanda Logan, archaeologist and archaeobotanist at Northwestern University, the brain behind our environmemtal studies at Ife, and Joseph Ayodokun, anthropologist, oral historian, and head of logistics for this project since 2015.
- A globular pot from the workshop of the beadmakers at Edun-Ide, excavated in July 2024 and analyzed today. This pot was probably used at some point to warm water as the inside is clean and the bottom has traces of fire. Also some pics of the workshop before and after excavations.















