Ernest Cole: Lost and Found by Raoul Peck is a meditative film that draws on Cole’s own notebooks and letters in a bold attempt to have him tell his own story.
Articles on African history + heritage
Displaying 61 - 80 of 87 articles
The Maghreb has long been absent from studies on the recent prehistory of the Mediterranean. The new findings change that.
Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid was written by two academics for readers of all ages to know about the pain and the triumph of South Africa’s past.
Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.
The ǀxam language has been carved into a new building at Rhodes House to honour the labour and suffering of Africans during colonialism.
Andreé Blouin was erased from history despite her pivotal role in African independence. Today she has a book prize named after her.
The native people of South Africa revered baboons, but they became part of occult beliefs and suburban fears.
The true depth of Michael Mosoeu Moerane’s work as a composer and educator is revealed in a stunning new biography called The Times Do Not Permit.
Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the defining geopolitical issue of our time.
In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the economic boom spurred by the slave trade.
Ana Angola was captured in the kingdom of Ndongo and spent months on a ship before a journey over land where she was forced to work on the gold mines of Antioquia.
Founded in 1384, the Bamoun kingdom tells an extraordinary history. A Cameroonian archaeologist visits the new museum of the kings.
Did Cameroon’s elite spread homosexuality through their connections to secret societies? Instead of disproving the conspiracy theory, the study examines why it came to be.
The war in Sudan has seen the looting of the country’s museums. Heritage boss Ikhlas Abdel Latief speaks about the losses.
A public figure who appeared often on TV and radio, Pathisa Nyathi celebrated the history and culture of Zimbabwe’s marginalised Ndebele people.
Archaeologists think the rock-cut architecture at Teniky in Madagascar may have been made by a community with Zoroastrian origins.
The team’s work at Oued Beht unearthed the most extensive and earliest agricultural complex known in north Africa outside the Nile Valley.
It’s important that this brutal chapter in South Africa’s past be commemorated in the right spirit, to reflect, take stock and to heal.
Ancient artefacts tell of some of the most advanced civilisations in history, a touchstone for future generations to understand Sudan’s heritage.
Repatriation of looted African art is no longer a marginalised topic, but reaps few rewards.
Top contributors
-
Assistant Professor, Harvard University
-
Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
-
Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
-
Disney Professor of Archaeology, Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
-
Professor and Chair of Allied Health Studies, Stephen F. Austin State University
-
Senior Researcher, Institute of Heritage Science, National Research Council (CNR)
-
Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
-
Research Associate, Humanities Research Centre (and African Literature Department, University of the Witwatersrand), University of York
-
Univertsity Assistant (Postdoc), Universität Wien; University of the Free State
-
Research Fellow, History Department, Universität Trier
-
Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
-
Assistant Professor, Department of History, West Virginia University
-
Professor, African American and African Studies, University of Virginia
-
Academic Fellow & Lecturer in Architecture and Cultural Heritage, Nottingham Trent University
-
Associate Lecturer at the National School of Architecture and Urbanism, Université de Carthage