It’s hard to believe, but Phuket was once like this, but the world marches to a different drum beat these days.

The Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, visiting Kilwa in 1331, described it as one of the most beautiful and well-built cities he had ever seen (Ibn Battuta, 1929). By the 1400s, when Vasco da Gama ...

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The result of these distortions is that when most people think of Africa’s past, they see only pyramids and pharaohs — and imagine them as white. Meanwhile, kingdoms like Kush, Mali, Aksum, Songhai, ...

Aliens: Colonial Marines – review, system requirements, and gameplay. A free Steam account, bugs, boring gunplay, and ...

AFRICAN art has, in past centuries, been largely ignored by Europeans and/or dismissed as “primitive” and only worthy of ...

The karma of colonialism is refusing to go away. We are born again into a postcolonial era where the past lives complexly into our present.  Scholars admit that colonialism has produced enduring ...

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Ex-aide to Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has explained how a former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo “vindicated” his long-standing call for Nigerians to favour indigenous fabrics such as Aso Oke ...

In a character-filled cul-de-sac of Colonial Revival dwellings, this early 20th century Flatbush row house has been updated with central air and a new kitchen, but there are still some period details ...

This dugout canoe found in the Fort Myers area in 2022 shows indications it was made in the style of a Caribbean cayuco, experts say. Florida Division of Historical Resources photo A dugout canoe that ...