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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 ...
Droughts are frequent and in winter temperatures can drop to minus 5 degrees Celsius. In 1896 when the first foreign settlers ...
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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, ...
Variety has announced that Grammy Award-winning singer Tyla, actor Finn Wolfhard (“Stranger Things”), and actor Sam Nivola ...
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 ...
In the 1970s, Amin enlisted Black Ugandans to battle against racial minorities who were said to dominate the economy and public life. Today an ascendant right wing encourages aggrieved white Americans ...
A few years ago, at a panel in North Africa, a tone-deaf American diplomat sat before a room full of people from the global ...
Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.
How does the rest of the world view Britain? Surely the stereotypes about queueing for fun, stiff upper lips, endless fish ...
What Next for Liverpool’s Italian Star?Liverpool’s decision to leave Federico Chiesa out of their 29-man pre-season squad ...