![]() “The fractal structures of traditional African settlements,” Eglash wrote, “reveal indigenous knowledge systems that have valuable insights for complexity.”īeyond urban design, fractals stand as part of Africa’s cultural history. Defensive walls guarded the son’s house-a pattern that emerged over the city. Kotoko men would have their sons build houses next to theirs for security from common northern invasions. According to Eglash, these patterns enacted Kotokos’ patrilocal households. ![]() They used clay to create self-similar rectangular complexes, added onto each other. The Kotoko people built the city of Logone-Birni in Cameroon centuries ago using fractal design. Each clump of dark matter holds smaller sub-structures of dark matter. On a larger scale, clumps of dark matter, called “ halos,” (which host galaxies and their clusters) have fractal-like properties. Think of the branches of trees, and how each smaller branch is a similar shape to its larger branch. ![]() What he and his team encountered were geometric patterns known as fractals.įractals are patterns that are infinitely repeating, even at smaller scales. Eglash’s team spent the decade tracking these shapes across Black Africa. The area around the village was surrounded by built circular shapes, encircling more circles in an expanding pattern. In the 1980s, the ethnomathmatician Ron Eglash was studying aerial photos of a tribe in Tanzania and saw a peculiar pattern governing the distribution of the people’s homes. Back to Black: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century | by Kehinde Andrews | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018
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