Alkebu-lan 1260 AH
My name is Nikolaj Cyon and I am an artist from Sweden who has worked with precolonial Africa as a theme in my art for over a year. I have, as a thought experiment, made a map of what Africa could have looked like, in the mid 19th century if Europe had never become a colonizing world power. In order to do this I have tried to construct an alternative historical time-line in which Europe was much harder struck by the plague in the 1350's and never recovered. Therefore African nations would have gotten the opportunity to flourish unhindered.
But the project is really about real historical precolonial African nations, and I have tried to form a map of the most prominent of those that existed between the 15th and mid 19th century, by looking at historical maps like the one found in UNESCO's ???A General History of Africa???, linguistic regions and natural boundaries.
I have also made a Prezi presentation in which I explain the map and some historical facts, and also the process of making it. This can be seen here.
The map was recently mentioned in The Washington Post, as number 23 out of 40 interesting maps.
I still have about 65 maps left out of 75 that i printed as A0 posters (84.1 ?? 118.9 cm) for sale for
100 euro ($ 135) for a signed numbered poster.
Shipping is 155 kr within Sweden, 18.50 euro within Europe and $30 to the rest of the world.
I can attach hard wood dowels up and down so it can be hanged anywhere for anadditional 60 euro, which fits well with the school map feel of the piece. Just send me an e-mail if you are interested.