‘How to Build a Library’ Review: Compassionate but Uneven Documentary Tracks the Reinvention of a Colonial Era Library in Kenya
This documentary, premiering at Sundance, follows the rehabilitation of a colonial-era library in Kenya, but only tells half ...
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A New Military Strategy of French Neocolonialism in Africa: Reorganizing Under the Cover Retreat
In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French ...
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COLONIAL AFRICA: The disruption of traditional structures
The arrival of European powers in Africa under mercantilism and capitalism marked not only an economic shift but also a ...
From Leopold to lithium: How corporations perfected the art of plundering Africa
The current conflict in the DRC is not just a crisis of governance or ethnic tensions but a direct continuation of a colonial ...
Looking to a Time When Most of the World’s Babies Will Be African
Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...
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Dr Muhammad Dan Suleiman: France still (Con)descends on Africa
French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent remarks about African countries’ "ingratitude" for France’s role in ...
Land seizure and South Africa’s new expropriation law: scholar weighs up the act
South Africa has a new law to govern the expropriation (or compulsory acquisition) of private property by government for ...
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Africa: Macron's Africa 'Reset' Stumbles As Leaders Call Out Colonial Overtones
French President Emmanuel Macron's efforts to "reset" France's relationship with its former African colonies appear to be faltering. Seven years after coming to power with promises of reform, a ...
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The story of one woman’s fight to gain African independence from colonial rule
Eve Blouin, daughter of African independence activist Andrée Blouin, speaks to The World’s Host Marco Werman about a new edition of her mother's autobiography recounting her fight for African ...
Macron’s Africa 'reset' stumbles as leaders call out colonial overtones
French President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to “reset” France’s relationship with its former African colonies appear to be ...
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My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria by Andrée Blouin – An intense history of colonialism
Under colonial rule, “disturb[ing] the life of a European” was outlawed; the Frenchman had the final say. My Country, Africa is Blouin’s autobiography, tracking her “own maligned fate ...
Colonial-era wigs were never part of Burkina Faso’s courtroom attire
Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online claiming Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore has officially banned ...