Tag: colonial history
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Iron and iron weapons have long been associated with power and divinity across many ancient societies. https://open.substack.com/pub/isaacsamuel/p/the-swords-of-ogun-west-africas-god?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›
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ECOWAS reaffirms its commitment to launching the ECO single currency in 2027, aiming for deeper economic integration and sustainable growth in West Africa. https://share.google/idoJHzbd0qwCyare9 more ›
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As the CFA Franc countries debate why and how to change their currency, can Nigeria be brought on board to form a genuine West African project? https://www.theafricareport.com/in-depth/the-perilous-journey-to-a-west-african-single-currency/ more ›
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Ghana wants to ditch its currency, the Cedi, in favour of adopting the Eco. Eight other countries in the region — Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Cote https://www.theafricareport.com/21756/ghana-joins-push-for-west-african-currency/ more ›
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Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa. https://open.substack.com/pub/isaacsamuel/p/the-white-masks-of-gabon-foreign?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›
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Haitian essayist and speaker Monique Clesca urges President Emmanuel Macron to acknowledge the ‘injustice’ committed two centuries ago when the nation achieved independence and France imposed a heavy debt burden… more ›
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Discourse on Colonialism is an essay by Aimé Césaire, a poet and politician from Martinique who helped found the négritude movement in Francophone literature. Césaire first published the essay in 1950 in Paris with Éditions Réclame, a small publisher… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/cqyYXWu Born to an enslaved mother in the British Caribbean in the tumultuous, brutal world of the late 18th century, Henry Christoph's role in the Haitian Revolution saw him… 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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Listen: https://ift.tt/OFC3J2Q Who owns stolen art? Today on the show, the bloody journey of a Benin Bronze from West Africa to the halls of one of England's most elite universities… more ›