Ecowas has a patchy track record when it comes to ensuring cooperation and security across west Africa – member states are now starting to leave.
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Nigeria is beset with security threats. Confronting them will take regional and international cooperation.
As The Settlers reminds us, films have often played a crucial role in helping establish and disseminate colonial mythologies.
Though the Global South tends to experience higher disease burdens, most public health decisions and knowledge generation are centered in the Global North.
Scholars say Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s schools, universities and museums are part of an ongoing project to destroy Palestinian people, identity and ideas.
Decades of Treaty scholarship have failed to arrive at a consensus about its meaning and purpose. Dispensing with various mistaken interpretations would improve the chances of productive discussion.
The Settlers of Catan codified a certain kind of game play based on the history of settler colonialism.
Birds have one unchanging scientific name, but often many common names that are subject to change. Choosing a new name for a bird isn’t necessarily a simple decision.
Shah Rukh Khan’s new film sheds light on the history of UK migration policy.
Many believe Australia became it’s own country at federation in 1901, but that’s not strictly true. Instead, it happened more than 80 years later. Why don’t we celebrate it?
Shows, movies and day-to-day language promote myths about voodoo that reinforce more than a century of stereotypes and discrimination, writes a scholar of Africana studies.
The ANC leans heavily on its liberation movement brand. But this will not necessarily be a determining factor in who will sway voters later this year.
Accounts of Asian American history often stop at the US border, but Asians were living in Latin America for centuries before the Declaration of Independence.
The plant’s African past provides insight into emerging issues in humanity’s interactions with cannabis.
Much like the history of the US, Joel Roberts Poinsett, after whom the poinsettia is named, had a complicated and troubling history.
H.B. Tristram was a Victorian clergyman and ornithologist who categorised a list of birds he’d found in Palestine.
Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis reveals the lineage of one 1800s ‘woolly dog’ from the Pacific Northwest.
Leaving out the history of Napoléon’s brutal subjugation of Haiti is akin to making a movie about Hitler without mentioning the Holocaust.
Spices have been prized commodities for centuries. Today, ‘warm’ flavors boost our health and spirits in fall and winter.
The Christmas pudding, once known as the ‘Empire Pudding,’ reflects the lasting legacy of the British Empire.
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa and Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations, Utrecht University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lakehead University
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Associate professor, McGill University
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Professor in Political Science, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Head of Research Programme, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Associate Professor Sport History, Stellenbosch University
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
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Curator & Section Head, Oceania, The British Museum
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Associate Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
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Professor, Department of Archaeology and Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town