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Freeing ourselves from domination: please spare 3 minutes of silence on 1 August for all the victims of the Arab and TransAtlantic slavery and other new oppressions in Africa.	Wambu, Onyekachi		Jul 1, 2011	623
Racial politics of writing African history: "As a historian of African descent, I regard the decolonisation of knowledge as a crucial step in ensuring that Africans worldwide retake control of their own destinies and histories.".	Ray, Carina		May 1, 2008	1387
Who will judge the judges?	Duodu, Cameron	Essay	May 1, 2008	1556
Egypt and Africa.	Hummler, Madeleine	Bibliography	Mar 1, 2008	207
What happened to Africa?	Pham, J. Peter	Critical essay	Jan 1, 2008	6592
African victims of the Anglo-Boer War: there are thousands of victims whose lives and deaths must be remembered as part and parcel of one of modern history's most painful and protracted birthing processes--the Anglo-Boer War. For without them, the Republic of South Africa might not have been born at all.	Ray, Carina	Column	Nov 1, 2007	1769
Go East, my son.	Akomolafe, Femi		Nov 1, 2007	1585
Zimbabwe: burying the truth; Hajia Aminata Sow, a retired Guinean jurist and historian, spent six months in Zimbabwe earlier this year, and, encouraged by the "Zimbabwe debate" in our last issue, writes about what she saw during her visit.	Sow, Hajia Aminata		Nov 1, 2007	2826
Africans must take their history seriously: the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called on Africans to never forget their history, reports Kingsley Antwi Bosiako from Kumasi, Ghana.	Bosiako, Kingsley Antwi		Oct 1, 2007	1237
London launches Black History Season: a new initiative put forward by Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, helps to cement African and Caribbean history into London's heritage.			Oct 1, 2006	587
Have you heard of Mansa Musa? Fact: the Africans knew about the lunar cycle and its shadows long before any European thought about it. If you don't believe it, ask the BBC's Michael Palin.			Oct 1, 2006	1154
East African sailor led Da Gama to India: without the help of an anonymous East African sailor, it is doubtful that Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese explorer, would have ever succeeded in 'discovering' India. Stephen Williams writes on the early history of the East African region.	Williams, Stephen		Oct 1, 2006	1372
The lessons of 1948: by coincidence, 1948 saw both the formal adoption of the system of apartheid in South Africa and the creation of the state of Israel. How do we explain this to the modern generations of Africans?	de Figueiredo, Antonio		Aug 1, 2006	1681
The man who rescued African history.	Duodu, Cameron		Jul 1, 2006	2194
Tectonics and human evolution.	King, Geoffrey; Bailey, Geoff		Jun 1, 2006	9610
Kenya: the rise and fall of African Heritage.	Donovan, Alan		Mar 1, 2006	2082
'The colonies have been created for the metropole by the metropole': by Dr Walter Rodney--this extract from his seminal work published in 1972, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, shows how the "golden years" of the colonial era intensified the development of Europe and America by Africa.	Rodney, Walter	Excerpt	Oct 1, 2005	2982
Trauma and representation in Africa.	Hill, Shannen		Sep 22, 2005	1306
A place in the sun.	Ankomah, Baffour	Column	Mar 1, 2005	1830
Undignified details: the colonial subject of law.	Reichman, Ravit		Jan 1, 2004	7397
The lost tribe: this is the second and concluding part of Amani Olubanjo Buntu's wide ranging piece on the history of the African glory and downfall in Asia, the merit of which is to question the white European scholars' view of African civilisations. You may agree or disagree with the views expressed. But they give food for thought.	Buntu, Amani Olubanjo		Nov 1, 2003	4415
Chilembwe, the forgotten hero: the aim of John Chilembwe's Uprising was twofold: first, if successful, the creation of an African state in Nyasaland, with strongly theocratic elements and selected European guidance; second, if unsuccessful, a gesture of protest at what were conceived as the intolerable aspects of European rule.	Boateng, Osei		Nov 1, 2003	3819
Resistance and the social history of Africa.	Allina-Pisano, Eric		Sep 22, 2003	6250
Special Court causes major upset. (Around Africa: Sierra Leone).	Butscher, Mike	Brief Article	May 1, 2003	790
Lesotho: Africa's best kept secret. (An IC Special Report).	Ankomah, Baffour; Bazid, Khalid		May 1, 2003	6884
If the UN does not matter. (Feature).			May 1, 2003	1519
Archaeology golden Gedi, Kenya's lost glory. (Feature).	Hordern, Nick		May 1, 2003	1854
How the Germans exterminated the Hereros. (History: Namibia).			May 1, 2003	3670
Congo will rise again! (Lest we Forget).	Figueiredo, Antonio de		Apr 1, 2003	1485
The Chinese came before the Europeans. (Feature: Africa).	Commey, Pusch		Mar 1, 2003	461
How the Germans got the land. (Feature: Namibia).			Mar 1, 2003	3612
Nontetha, the martyr. (2002 in Review).	Sesanti, Simphiwe	Brief Article	Jan 1, 2003	833
The magic of Kilwa Island. (Feature: Tanzania).	Hordern, Nick		Jan 1, 2003	2186
Slavery time for some home truths. (Diaspora).	Lewis, Lester		Jan 1, 2003	1400
Light on the dark continent: the photography of Alice Seely Harris and the Congo atrocities of the early twentieth century.	Thompson, Jack		Oct 1, 2002	3148
The clash of histories of civilisations. (Diaspora).	Lowstedt, Anthony		Jun 1, 2002	1112
Stirring the ethnic pot. (Products & Processes).		Brief Article	May 1, 2002	178
DNA diaspora: humanity may share tangled genetic roots.	Bower, B.	Brief Article	Mar 9, 2002	575
New discoveries in Africa change face of history. (Cover story 2: Black history month).	Greenfield, Richard		Nov 1, 2001	2440
Reflections on "African voices" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of natural history.	Mason, Michael Atwood		Jun 22, 2001	9075
Yaa Asantewaa - warrior queen. (The Arts).	Duodu, Cameron		Jun 1, 2001	1361
A continent stressed to the breaking point.	WALSHE, PETER	Column	Apr 20, 2001	2004
Simply -- a history of Pan-Africanism.			Aug 1, 2000	1694
AFRICA: BEYOND 2000.	Versi, Anver; Nevin, Tom		Jan 1, 2000	7861
Africana, and Encarta Africana.	Gates Jr., Dr. Henry Louis		Oct 1, 1999	2067
Nuruddin Farah's Italian Domain1.	GORLIER, CLAUDIO		Sep 22, 1998	4566
Black handbook.		Book Review	Jul 1, 1998	102
101 questions on the African world experience.			Feb 1, 1997	4055
Early hominid's diet expands (Brief Article)	Bower, Bruce	Brief Article	Apr 18, 1992	318
Beware of Greeks bearing culture.	Bower, Ron		Dec 7, 1991	287
When the women choose to walk.			Jun 1, 1989	726