Status Updates From An African History of Afric...

Cleopatra and Julius Caesar sidetracked me to looking up when the Julian calendar was invented — proposed in 46 BC and put into effect Jan 1, 45 BC — and subsequently learned that the calendar we use currently is not the Julian one but the Gregorian Calendar proposed in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII which is kinda interesting!

Reading the span of the Egyptian dynasties— 445 years, 380 years, 800 years—it’s a reminder that our own country, 249 years old currently, is nothing in the grand history of the world. We’ve had this country for next to no time at all. It’s wild to think about.

“Modern-day tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia, where 85 per cent of the Blue Nile flows, are centered on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which opened in 2020 and uses the Blue Nile to provide hydroelectric power, leading to anxiety among Egyptians that this will reduce their own water capacity.”

So war so good. I‘m sold!