How soldiers in Europe's only private army carry 19th century rifles
With their Lee Metford rifles, broadswords and daggers in their socks, they look like men you would not want to get on the ...
140 years since the Berlin Congress: The new Scramble for Africa—Part One
The conference’s proceedings, discussion and conclusions made clear that the continent’s rich resources and human labour were ...
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Billionaires’ row: tour the street where South Africa’s super-rich live
Take a walk down the world's most expensive streets, from Vancouver's Point Grey Road and Miami's Indian Creek Island Road to ...
Slavery, tax evasion, resistance: the story of 11 Africans in South America’s gold mines in the 1500s
Ana Angola was captured in the kingdom of Ndongo and spent months on a ship before a journey over land where she was forced ...
Foreign Affairs4d
The Ghosts of Bud Dajo
Sheila S. Coronel is Toni Stabile Professor of Practice in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University and Co-Founder of ...
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The 25 major airports located closest to the city centers they are named after
AeroTime presents the 25 major international airports located closest to the city centers they are named after.
The Economist5d
The economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world is growing
Most of the population growth expected over the rest of the 21st century is expected to take place in Africa. These new ...
USC has the letters of the first Black person to vote in Britain. Or so they thought.
A rare book exhibition was thought to display the letters of the first Black voter in Britain at the University of South ...
From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elites?
Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the ...
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'Pirates' Display Debuts @ National Maritime Museum
In March 2025 the major exhibition Pirates will open at the National Maritime Museum (NMM), tracing the changing depictions ...
Opinion
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Paul Breen: What if 1924’s Boundary Commission had cut up other lines?
It’s been a busy festive few weeks for most people recently, with many of us gathered round the box, eating our turkey-flavoured Taytos, with ...
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South African Architecture
Loewenson’s project, “Black Papers: Beyond the Politics of Land, Towards African Policies of Earth & Air,” explores the social and spatial dynamics in modern Africa.