What kind of clothing would one find commonly used in pre-colonial africa? My thread on Somalia has tons of great pictures of somalis in their traditional clothing. What about the rest of Africa? I know anything from mere loincloths to embroidered robes were common, but what else? I know Asante soldiers wore a kind of tunic in battle(despite being depicted half-naked wearing leopard skins in battle) and that the people of benin wore tunics and pleated trousers, but let's see some pics!
Posted by PreColonialAfrica13 (Member # 21589) on 18 November, 2013 05:39 AM:
Western Sudanic calvary clothing would have looked like this. Posted by Son of Ra (Member # 20401) on 20 November, 2013 01:20 AM:
Would be badass beyond belief if an Ashanti women warrior or any other West African female warrior dressed like this. Posted by Son of Ra (Member # 20401) on 20 November, 2013 02:04 AM:
The women of Mali and other Western Sudanic states would have probably dressed something like this.
I'm just having fun right now.
In the novel I am currently writing, the women of Songhai dress EXTREMELY lavish.
Posted by Truthcentric (Member # 3735) on 20 November, 2013 02:31 AM:
^ That's exactly how I've always imagined traditional West African women to dress.
Posted by PreColonialAfrica13 (Member # 21589) on 20 November, 2013 02:46 AM:
Cool pics, hey Son of Ra, I did see a pic of a Dahomey Amazon on here pictured in a similarly badass away, not as sexualized, but the truth isn't probably too far from that.
Posted by PreColonialAfrica13 (Member # 21589) on 20 November, 2013 05:21 AM:
Not really sexualized, but still beautiful and deadly. As I understand it the dahomey amazons weren't the only female warriors in african society, but easily the most prominent.
Posted by PreColonialAfrica13 (Member # 21589) on 20 November, 2013 05:30 AM:
quote:The Dahomey Amazons are the only documented all-female official front-line combat arms military unit in modern history. Tough, uber-intense asskicking women single-mindedly devoted to hardening themselves into ruthless instruments of battlefield destruction, these machete-wielding, musket-slinging lady terminators were rightly-feared throughout Western Africa for over250 years, not only for their fanatical devotion to battle, but for their utter refusal to back down or retreat from any fight unless expressly ordered to do so by their king. If you were some poor conscript douchebag militia soldier hanging out around your barracks and you saw these scary-as-**** kill-chicks suddenly start charging out of the woods in your direction, screaming their war chants with their muskets barking fire and their signature double-edged two-foot-long machetes brandished threateningly over their heads, you had one fleeting moment to overcome your crippling panic and defend yourself. Because if you failed to kill them – and I mean if you failed to kill every single last fucking one of them, some murderous woman was going to club you unconscious with a musket butt, drag you back to her capital, chop off your head with one swing of her machete, boil the skin off of your decapitated face, and then use your skull to decorate the royal palace.
Posted by Son of Ra (Member # 20401) on 20 November, 2013 11:41 PM:
I imagine Nefertari looking and dressing something like this... Posted by Bilal Dogon -aka blingdogg (Member # 21572) on 21 November, 2013 03:01 PM:
It would be even more awesome if she really could unleash flames of green energy too, lol.
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