On November 3, 1948, Jawaharlal Nehru delivered his first speech at the United Nations, outlining India’s independent foreign policy and vision for global peace. The day also saw milestones — Panama’s ...

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

The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent’s principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this new book, historian Malyn Newitt traces the ...

Over the 20th century, the PAC evolved from a reformist platform led by Black intellectuals in the diaspora to a radical, African-led movement advocating political independence, economic control, and ...

Aviation sector in Nigeria started, through the use of the Kano experience in quelling the first-ever twin concept of rural ...

By Nigel Westmaas “Nah tek yuh mattie eye fuh see.” - Guyanese proverb (“Don’t rely on someone else’s view, see for yourself.”) One of the striking ...

Now this cultural “renaissance” is the subject of a new exhibition at Tate Modern, which brings together some 250 pieces – ...

American history stretches back thousands of years through indigenous civilizations, then layers in centuries of colonial ...

In the quiet corridors of the afterlife, Julius Nyerere was sipping ethereal tea when the evening news from Earth floated through the clouds. “Hundreds die after elections in Tanzania!” the headlines ...

The West’s new “gift horses,” from Wendy Doniger to Sheldon Pollock to Audrey Truschke, may use more polished language, but ...

By 2063, Africa’s cities will host an additional one billion people. Yet today, 23 of the continent’s 52 countries remain low-income, with more than 80% of urban jobs in the informal sector. For ...