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The recent historical resurrection of the pre-colonial Nubian-speaking communities of Kordofan invites reflection upon one of the activities for which, in their time, they were best known—the production of iron.2 “Iron smelting is now a forgotten art in Northern Kordofan,” wrote inquisitive colonial official Harold MacMichael at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Spaulding, J. (2016). Iron Metallurgy in Ancient Sudan. In: Emeagwali, G., Shizha, E. (eds) African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences. Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-515-9_16
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