Africabeat

African fractals, and why your computer may be African

So perhaps a better, more succinct response to Will Saletan's piece on race, genetics, and intelligence which appeared on Slate last month, is this video of a talk by Ron Eglash, an "ethno-mathematician" who studies African fractals.  Learn about the African origins of binary code, and how God, architecture, and mathematics are married in infinite regression:

African Art @ Ethnographica

Ethnographica is a cool little site I recently stumbled upon that offers brief descriptions and photographs of over fifty African peoples' art and artistic traditions (e.g., the Akan, the Mossi, the Igbo, etc.).

Browse images here
Browse ethnographic background here