Music has often been used as a political tool to urge Kenyans to forget the sins of colonial and post-colonial regimes.
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New Year’s Eve is the anniversary of the British invaders’ first kidnapping of a First Nations person in Australia. This kidnapping led to a devastating smallpox outbreak.
To prosper after the legacy of imperialism and colonization, Afghanistan needs partnerships and business investment, not bullets and bombs.
The new novel by Nigerian icon Wole Soyinka is at once satire, political thriller and tragedy. It is the work of a great writer that marks the destruction of postcolonial reason.
On-field demonstrations of remembrance and protest are able to harness potent political power.
Gurnah won the prize for his “uncompromising and compassionate” look at the “effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugees”.
How Harare has dealt with its urban canine citizens over the years following independence reflects the competing visions of a modern city.
Sports in Africa, Past and Present examines the role played by leisure and professional sports in shaping African life, including resisting colonialism.
Because ethnic territories are a major source of political friction and persecution in the world, it’s important to investigate how they are created and used in conflicts.
These medical volunteers have been closely associated with several kinds of non-human actors, whose behaviour is worth examining in more detail.
The fact that the colonial system was essentially a commercial expedition meant that the outcome was the creation of corporate entities rather than nation states.
The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire.
Two sequels which show how the Victorian novelist’s stories can be adapted to reflect post-colonial narratives.
In a surprising twist, Frozen 2 tackles the complicated issue of warped colonial narratives and the case for repatriation. A worthy feat, but how well does Disney pull it off?
For the first time since independence, Namibia’s ruling party has suffered electoral setbacks in the midst of economic and political crisis.
A film about Cape Town’s environmental resources features a cast as diverse as breakdancers and wetland activists - and is being used as a study aid globally.
The International Year of Indigenous Languages serves as a good impetus to start implementing policies that prioritises Africa’s own languages.
In the past few decades, there’s been more critique of global knowledge inequalities and the global North’s dominance.
Scholars such as Alfred Sauvy, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Frantz Fanon wrote in French, but their work greatly contributed to our understanding of democracy and social change in all contexts.
Author V.S. Naipaul, who died on Aug. 11, both scorned and mirrored his Caribbean origins. At the University of the West Indies, students must reconcile this conflicted titan’s literary legacy.
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Emeritus Professor of African Linguistics, University of Leipzig
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Professor of English Language Teaching and Literacy Development, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer, Literary and Cultural Studies, Monash University
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Associate Professor Sport History, Stellenbosch University
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South African visual artist and senior lecturer of Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University, Rhodes University
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Senior Lecturer in American History & Director of Liberal Arts, University of Exeter
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Distinguished Professor, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Digital Research Infrastructure Consultant, University of Cape Town
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Formerly Reader, Birmingham Law School
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Assistant Lecturer, Geography Department, The University of the West Indies: St. Augustine Campus
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Lecturer: History; Humanities, University of Pretoria
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Director of History & Policy at the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Professor of the Politics of Development, University of Oxford