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‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ by Frederick Douglass
This is the perfect time to read the entirety of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, and not merely because of the…
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Take down monuments to Native American oppression
A larger-than-life bronze bust of Christopher Columbus surveys Pueblo, Colorado, from atop a 15-foot limestone column. The monument, designed by…
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Rwanda: More Evidence Pins France On Genocide
RECENT reports in the French media have been awash with damning evidence about France’s complicity in the 1994 Genocide against…
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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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The wealth of the west was built on Africa's exploitation
Britain was the principal slaving nation of the modern world. In The Empire Pays Back, a documentary broadcast by Channel…
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A SHORT HISTORY OF HAITI
By Tim Lambert Haiti forms part of the island of Hispaniola. Before the Europeans arrived a people called the Arawaks…
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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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