Rock wall paintings from Tassili-n-Ajjer, Algeria, ca. Cattle Being Tended, c. 2500-1500 BCE

Running woman, rock wall paintings from Tassili-n-Ajjer, Algeria, ca. 6000-4000 BCE.

Nok head, from Rafin Kura, Nigeria, ca. 500 BCE–200 CE. Terracotta, 1’ 2 3/16” high. National Museum, Lagos. 

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King, from Ife, Nigeria, 11th to 12th century. Zinc brass, 1’ 6 1/2” high. Ife Museum, Ife.

Head of a King, from Ife, Yoruba. Ca. 13th c. CE. Zinc brass. Height: 11 7/16”. Museum of Ife Antiquities, Ife, Nigeria.

Head of an Oba, bronze, 18th c., National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.

Altar to the Hand and Arm (ikegobo), from Benin, Nigeria, 17th to 18th century (?). Bronze, 1’ 5 1/2” high. British Museum, London. (Not in Stokstad)

Memorial Head, Benin Early Period, c. 1400-1500 CE. Brass. Height: 9 3/4”. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Seated Figure, 13th century, c. 1235, Mali, Inland Niger Delta region, terracotta, height: 10 inches, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ivory belt mask of a Queen Mother, from Benin, Nigeria, mid-16th century. Ivory and iron, 9 3/8” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Horseman from Old Djenné, Mali, 13-15th century. Terra-cotta, height: 27 3/4 in. The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Great Friday Mosque, Djenné, Mali. Rebuilding of 1907 in the style of the 13th c. original.

The Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, became an important Islamic house of worship in the Mali Empire. © Aldona Sabalis, Photo Researchers, World Book.

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Courtyard, central tower, and wall, Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, 14th century. View of the Great Enclosure with four conical towers, seen from inside wall.

Bird with crocodile image on top of stone monolith, from Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, c. 1200-1400. Soapstone, bird image 1’ 2 1/2” high. Great Zimbabwe Site Museum, Great Zimbabwe.