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The Armchair Historian on MSN16h
British Colonization of Africa
The British colonization of Africa reshaped an entire continent - politically, economically, and culturally. In this video, I ...
In an era of postcolonial reckoning, where statues fall and empires are re-examined, one colonial power continues to escape the full force of historical judgment: Britain. While Belgium’s horrors in ...
The Zimbabwean on MSN20h
The State of Agriculture in Zimbabwe
Droughts are frequent and in winter temperatures can drop to minus 5 degrees Celsius. In 1896 when the first foreign settlers ...
Israel’s announcement of its “humanitarian city” in Gaza stirs up unsettling, traumatic and barbaric images of concentration ...
Al Jazeera on MSN5dOpinion
Zohran Mamdani cannot be boxed in
As Mamdani himself told The New York Times: “Most college applications don’t have a box for Indian Ugandans, so I checked ...
It has become an almost predictable rhythm in many African political speeches, panel discussions, and media narratives that whenever a country is struggling with economic collapse, political disunity, ...
Mamdanis belong to the Khoja community, who were categorized by the British in the early 19th century as “Hindoo Mussalman” ...
For three decades from the 1940s, Paul Temple ruled the airwaves. This urbane amateur detective was a mainstay of the BBC Home Service, solving all manner of dastardly deeds with aplomb. Listeners ...
How does the rest of the world view Britain? Surely the stereotypes about queueing for fun, stiff upper lips, endless fish ...
In the 1970s, Amin enlisted Black Ugandans to battle against racial minorities who were said to dominate the economy and ...
What Next for Liverpool’s Italian Star?Liverpool’s decision to leave Federico Chiesa out of their 29-man pre-season squad ...
Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.