Explore how Africa’s colonial borders still shape politics, conflicts, and identities across the continent today.

Most of what you think you know is wrong. What was the relationship between Christian missions and European colonialism in West Africa? For decades Western and African historians have agreed on an ...

For the first time, an event dedicated to Belgian colonialism is being held in Baku, bringing together representatives, ...

The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands of the continent’s former colonisers. Europe is re-evaluating its colonial ...

From the rock shelters of southern Africa to the royal courts of Buganda, fluidity shaped ritual, healing, and community.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The present paper discusses the issue of gender and land tenure in former Portuguese Guinea, currently Guinea Bissau, during a crucial period ...

The question remains: Is an African museum, designed by an African architect, capable of undoing the institutional violence that it has inherited? Brass plaque showing the Oba of Benin with soldiers, ...

This course is available on the MA in Asian and International History (LSE and NUS), MA in Modern History, MSc in Culture, Justice, and Environment, MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation, MSc ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Environmental histories of the African diaspora challenge Eurocentric interpretations of the Columbian Exchange by identifying African ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then helped Patrice Lumumba’s electoral campaign in the Belgian Congo, before ...