colonialism
- History, Knowledge & Memory
Africa Had Complex Borders Before Colonialism — We Just Didn’t Draw Them on European Maps
One of the most enduring ideas about Africa’s past is that before colonialism, the continent was largely borderless — a…
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Belgium begins to face brutal colonial legacy of Leopold II
By Daniel Boffey In the last years of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, King Leopold II of…
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How colonial rule committed Africa to fragile authoritarianism
The impact of colonial rule on sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the subject of intense debate and controversy.
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How a major anti-colonial victory divided Ethiopia
The Victory of Adwa has been a very divisive issue in Ethiopia for decades. It's time to change that
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After Namibia, could other former German colonies demand reparations?
Namibia is demanding reparations from Germany for the colonial-era genocide that took place more than hundred years ago. Are other…
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The unfinished business between Cameroon and France
In January this year, Cameroonian President Paul Biya (in office since 1982), cut off the southwest and northwest regions of…
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We are all Helen Zille. Or, why the West thinks that colonialism was not all bad.
In a series of tweets, Helen Zille, who is Premier of the Western Cape (one of South Africa’s nine provinces)…
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Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961)
By Sean Jacobs Patrice Lumumba was prime minister of a newly independent Congo for only seven months between 1960 and…
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