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Illustrating African history without folklore or invention: that is the thread of this front.

For each resource we look for credible representations — portraits, sites, objects, historical maps — and refuse decorative filler.

When no image meets a documentary threshold, we prefer absence to a misleading picture. Resolution is judgment, not automation.

The work continues as we publish. Some records will gain an image later; others will remain deliberately without one.

An exact record beats an approximate image.