In doing so we systematically document for the first time the extent to which Africa was politically decentralized, calculating that in 1880 there were probably 45,000 independent polities which were ...
Africa’s modern map tells a story centuries in the making, yet much of it was drawn by foreign powers with little regard for local realities. Straight lines carved across rivers, mountains, and ...
More than 60 years after most African states gained independence, the legal infrastructure imposed by former colonial powers continues to exert outsized influence. Across the continent, outdated ...
Europe is re-evaluating its colonial past. Statues are being torn down, buildings are being renamed and African art on display in some of the most prestigious European institutions is finally making ...
Africa’s longstanding call for colonial reparations was revived at an international roundtable held in Bamako, Mali, where experts, politicians, and civil society leaders demanded compensation from ...
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Discover the year’s essential reads in fiction and nonfiction. And yet Nkrumah’s political program was maddeningly miscellaneous, or just vague. He was some kind of socialist, not quite a communist, ...
BERLIN (AP) — Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is still driven by the promise he gave his grandmother when he left Tanzania for Germany almost 50 years ago: to bring back for a proper burial the head of a local ...
A new exhibition at the Africa Museum in Belgium takes a frank look at a large-scale propaganda painting and the institution’s own past role in adding to the spin. By Nina Siegal Reporting from ...
Royal Holloway provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has used for ...
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