Colonial nostalgia and amnesia are treacherous because they perpetuate oppressive narratives, hinder meaningful ...

Fundamentally It seeks to provide an explanation of the conflicts which erupted in Africa after 1989 by developing a historical perspective from the pre-colonial period to the end of the Cold War.. It ...

Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, Bd. 33, European Sources for Sub-Saharan Africa Before 1900: Use and Abuse (1987), pp. 81-93 (13 pages) ...

Centuries of being overshadowed and misrepresented by colonial and other external perspectives have portrayed the continent ...

the first black African nation to gain its independence from colonial rule they named their new country after ancient Ghana. The choice was more than merely symbolic because modern Ghana ...

Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each ...

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 ...

Furthermore, from an Indigenous perspective if, on the one hand, names are powerful forms of identity, and if the one who names has power and domination over the named, on the other hand, then ...