Africa has a complex history of kingdoms, colonies, and modern states that have risen and fallen over centuries. Borders were often redrawn due to colonization, wars, and political agreements, leading ...

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LLast Tuesday, on 3rd March, Malawi commemorated Martyrs’ Day as an annual national event. This important day honours the brave sons and daughters who lost their lives during the 1959 State of ...

Analysts already speculate that Kurdish regions of Iran could attempt to consolidate into an independent Kurdistan if Tehran’s central authority collapses. Kurdish autonomy movements have existed for ...

A historian and exponent of ‘Rhodes must fall’ explores how political liberation doesn’t always bring personal freedom ...

It is not now debatable that an American order was imposed on the world immediately after the Second World War and that order subsists today, however shaky it now seems to be. It is no coincidence ...

Yet when a liberation movement transitions into state power, unresolved trauma can harden into authoritarian governance. The Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s remain a scar on the nation’s conscience ...

THE following appointments in the Colonial Service have been recently announced : J. Chattaway, agricultral officer, Federation of Malaya ; W. R. Mills, agricultural ...

Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s nomination of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his hands already crimson with the blood of innocent Iraqis, to run post-war Gaza, brings to mind a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On March 9 2015, Chumani Maxwele, a student activist at the University of Cape Town, emptied a portable toilet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you come across a role as rich as Nicola Fuller, the mother in “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” and no one wants to make ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Kontuthu Ziyathunqa – Smoke Rising – was what they used to call Bulawayo when the city was the industrial powerhouse of Zimbabwe. Now, many of its factories lie dormant or ...