Tag: african history

• Visualizing Africa’s Free Trade Ambitions

  April 18, 2019

  At a glance, it may seem like the world’s biggest technology companies have a lot in common. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/africa-free-trade/ more ›

• Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived

  March 11, 2019

  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires’ list released this week. With an estimated fortune of $131bn (£99bn) he is… more ›

• The Poesis of Mimesis in Les Maîtres Fous: Looking Back at the Conspiratorial Ethnography of Jean Rouch

  January 3, 2019

  While on a surface level the film recounts an African possession ritual which critically burlesques colonialism, many viewers found it to have a colonialist perspective, exoticising “primitive” practices and reinforcing… more ›

• Rare photos of life inside an ancient kingdom…

  October 22, 2017

  Rare photos of life inside an ancient kingdom capture Nigeria’s transition to independence » For more than half a century, Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge, a self-taught photographer from Benin City,… more ›

• The forgotten genocide

  December 25, 2016

  The forgotten genocide » Throughout this month, the global community unites to remember the systematic slaughter of six million Jews and an estimated 11 million other victims under the Nazi… more ›

• 'We are the Mau Mau': Kenyans share stories of…

  May 8, 2016

  'We are the Mau Mau': Kenyans share stories of torture » It’s December 1952. Naomi Nziula Kimweli, her husband Kimweli Mbithuka Kilatya, and their three children are on a bus,… more ›