Editor’s Note: Africa’s complex realities
To understand the present, one needs to understand the past. Surely this aphorism is true across...
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Category: AIF Issue 51
Contested, but difficult to ignore
African history: quo vadis? Newly emerging African histories in the 1950s and 60s served as an...
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A revolution of the aspiring bourgeoisie
African communism: a pragmatic approach Communism was not a decisive force anywhere in Africa...
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Time for change
African leadership: the golden age The continent’s current crop of leaders is more acquiescent...
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China: the special relationship Economic and political ties between Africa and China have led to infrastructural development on a monumental scale but their roots go back millennia No one knows exactly how long ago the...
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Altered states
Africa: the age of revolutions A broader view of history reveals Africans to have been decisive...
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The ‘door of the return’ to a new humanism
Gorée Island: memorial to slavery Visitors to Senegal’s notorious Gorée island learn about a...
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A painful history
Africa: the transatlantic slave trade Slavery was virtually a universal institution in countries...
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The ancient libraries of Africa
Africa: the written word Africa’s great libraries are stories of state formation and empires, and...
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Troubled and ambiguous
Heritage: the long shadows of past and present Commemorating heritage in Africa is no longer the...
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Military nightmares, martial fantasies
Nigeria: 20 years of democracy Political scientists agree that unfettered access to oil cash was a...
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The facts are stubborn
Rwanda: the genocide archives Amid mounting calls for an honest investigation into the Rwandan...
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