Tag: african history
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Algerian MPs have passed a law that declares France’s colonisation of the country a state crime and demands reparations and an apology. https://www.africanews.com/2025/12/25/algeria-passes-law-declaring-french-colonisation-a-state-crime-demands-apology-and-reparat/ more ›
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Algerian foreign minister says African countries and peoples continue to pay a heavy price for colonialism https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/30/african-leaders-push-for-recognition-of-colonial-crimes-and-reparations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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British art historian Hermione Waterfield and South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti have retuned objects to Ghana’s Asante Kingdom https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/13/private-collectors-return-of-artefacts-to-ghana-highlights-uks-inaction-on-restitution-heritage-experts-say?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&utm_campaign=acacae721e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_11_07_10_51_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-5c0240b3a5-62187982 more ›
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He’s trained in building bridges, literally, but by now he’s become used to blowing them up – it’s 1941 and everyone needs to adapt. more ›
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One of the leading figures of the LA Rebellion—the new wave of Black American independent cinema that emerged from UCLA’s film school in the 1970s and ’80s—Billy Woodberry created one… more ›
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The incoming administration should think twice before ignoring the Africa portfolio. https://www.cfr.org/blog/whats-stake-africa-2025 more ›
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In this report, we show that Belgium’s response obscures the transnational nature of the Métis question. The crimes were perpetrated against African mothers living in the Great Lakes region and… more ›
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Germany on Friday formally recognized as “genocide” the crimes committed by its colonial troops at the beginning of the 20th century against the Herero and Nama people in what is… more ›
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Who was Rudolf Douala Manga Bell? Rudolf Douala Manga Bell (also spelled Duala) was born in 1873 in Douala. He was the grandson of King Ndumbe Lobe Bell — also… more ›
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