Africa has walked a long, difficult, and remarkable road . From the dark decades of colonial rule, through the experiments of ...

From anti-protest legislation to moral policing and land dispossession, the legal relics of the colonial empire still reinforce authoritarianism and elite control decades after independence. More than ...

Most of what you think you know is wrong. What was the relationship between Christian missions and European colonialism in West Africa? For decades Western and African historians have agreed on an ...

"Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-seventeenth century to the outbreak of the South ...

Introduction -- The origins of European imperialism and the rise of militant Islam -- Background to the Scramble -- The French conquest of the Western Sudan -- The completion of the French occupation ...

This grimmest of periods is examined in the re-issue of the book, A History of Namibia by Marian Wallace (Hurst, 2025). First ...

This course is available on the MA in Asian and International History (LSE and NUS), MA in Modern History, MSc in Culture, Justice, and Environment, MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation, MSc ...

Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s ...

The termination of colonial rule in Africa and. Asia has left the liberated new countries in a confused and confusing situation. The ideological argument that these countries used in their fight for ...