Tag Archives: British Empire
Last year, I attended a conference that brought together African thought leaders. In a session about African identity, we explored the question of whether one could claim to be African without being fluent in any African languages. A passionate, and near disruptive … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Agbor, British Empire, CHINUA ACHEBE, Colonialism, English language, Igbo, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, United States
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By Ayom Wol Dhal I grew up in London in the 1970s and 80s, under Thatcher. We first noticed her (long before she was Prime Minister), because she abolished free milk in schools for poor kids like me and everybody … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Anita Roddick, British Empire, Falkland Islands, IndepthAfrica, London, Maggie, Margaret Thatcher, Mark Thatcher, Thatcher
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By Kayitana Ka Ruterandongozi opinion The French “intervention” in Mali to assist a national army that has been receiving counter-terrorism training from the USA since 2007 makes one wonder how competent their instructors are. Or is it that Malian soldiers … read more »
Posted in Article, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Zimbabwe
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Tagged British Empire, Cecil Rhodes, East African Community, France, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Southern African Development Community, United States
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African politicians are a strange breed indeed, quick to condemn and shout against colonialism and imperialism, but slow to shed their personal colonial comforts. It is always a dangerous occupation to generalize. As Mark Twain once said; “All generalizations are … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Southern Africa, Vince Musewe, Zimbabwe
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Tagged British Empire, Harare, IndepthAfrica, Mark Twain, Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe, South Africa, United States, Zimbabwe, Zimbabweans
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Never before seen files on Britain’s cruel colonial grip on Kenya have revealed a desperate attempt to cover up the massacre of unarmed prisoners during the Mau Mau uprising. Eleven prisoners at the Hola detention camp were brutally clubbed to … read more »
Foreign Minister must serve the nation and avoid behaving like the previous transitional authority. Any tribal or territorial dispute must be left alone for our traditional elders and the ministry of Interior. We must not favor one tribal entity over … read more »
Posted in Article, Somali
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Tagged British Empire, Foreign minister, IndepthAfrica, Mogadishu, Somali, somali news, Somali people, Somalia, Somaliland, Transitional Federal Government
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A tribeswoman wears traditional clothes during preparations for the independence day ceremony, scheduled for July 9, in Juba July 1, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic By Alex Whiting LONDON (TrustLaw) – From elderly ladies terrifying enemy fighters to Igbo women “sitting on” … read more »
Ministers issued a dramatic confession yesterday that prisoners were tortured and sexually abused under British colonial rule in Kenya. It is believed to be the first time the Government has made such a public declaration that atrocities were carried out … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Hottest News, Kenya, News, Spotlight
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, breaking news, British Empire, British Government, East Africa, Enoch Powell, Government of the United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Kenya, Mau, Mau Mau Uprising, Nigeria news, niheria newspapers, nothafrica, West Africa
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Western style “democracy” is destroying Africa. It seems everywhere you look in Africa you see elections marked by violence and bloodshed. “Buy, rig or steal” is the name of the game and if that doesn’t work, send in the French … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Thomas C. Mountain
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Secret files from British colonial rule – once thought lost – have been released by the government, one year after they came to light in a High Court challenge to disclose them. Some of the papers cover controversial episodes: the … read more »
Franklin W Knight Caribbean and Diaspora Studies have made significant strides over the past few decades. They have come a long way since their principal focus was to provide new information and legitimacy to a range of disciplines in the … read more »
I. CARIBBEAN FANONISM The impending republication of Louis Lindsay’s paper ‘The Myth of Independence: Middle Class Politics and Non-Mobilization in Jamaica’, (Lindsay 1975) provides a timely opportunity for a reappraisal of the influence of the Martiniquan psychiatrist and political scientist, … read more »
October 27, 2011 by benim
Perth – Africa’s natural resources and fast-growing population will help ensure the continent prospers even if the developed world suffers another economic meltdown, Nigeria’s president said. Goodluck Jonathan told a business forum in the Australian city of Perth he was … read more »
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Kenyan veterans of the 1950s Mau Mau uprising celebrated Thursday after four colleagues won court approval in Britain to sue the British government over brutality they claim they suffered in the struggle. “For a very long time we have remained … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Kenya, News
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Arab League, breaking news, British Empire, British Government, East Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Government of the United Kingdom, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Kenya, Martyn Day, Mau Mau Uprising, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, torture, West Africa
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Excerpt from Nigeria’s 50th anniversary lecture at the Embassy of Nigeria. I was born in 1954 in colonial Africa. One of my most cherished mementos from the colony of Nigeria is one of the pennies I received for my school … read more »
Posted in Analysis
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Tagged Africa maps, Africa news, African news, African tribes, breaking news, British Empire, Côte d'Ivoire, Embassies and Consulates, Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, IndepthWorld, Kwame Nkrumah, News local news, newspapers, Nigeria, Postcolonialism, West Africa, World news
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Excerpt from Nigeria’s 50th anniversary lecture at the Embassy of Nigeria, Paris. Walk with me in memory to one of the greatest celebrations, the end of the colonial era in Africa. The day: October 1, 1960. The place: British West … read more »
February 12, 2011 by benim
Abraham Lincoln’s reputation as the great champion of America’s slaves has taken a battering amid new evidence that the revered president wanted to send many of them to toil in British colonies in the Caribbean. Academics Phillip Magness and Sebastian … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Africa maps, Africa news, African news, African tribes, American Civil War, breaking news, British Empire, British Guiana, British Honduras, Emancipation Proclamation, Embassies and Consulates, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Union, United States
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January 31, 2011 by benim
Sudanese police beat and arrested students on Sunday as protests broke out throughout Khartoum demanding the government resign, inspired by a popular uprising in neighbouring Egypt. Hundreds of armed riot police broke up groups of young Sudanese demonstrating in central … read more »
Posted in Conflict/Tragedy, News, North Africa, Sudan
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Tagged Africa maps, Africa news, African news, Arab World, breaking news, British Empire, Egypt, Embassies and Consulates, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, Mubarak al-Fadil, News local news, newspapers, Reuters, Sudan, Tunisia, World news
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January 21, 2011 by benim
Nigeria was a creation of the British colonial adventurer and empire builder. The March for markets, raw materials and the need to exert political influence overseas led Britain to journey to places as distant as Wikki in present day Borno … read more »
Posted in African History
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Tagged Africa maps, Africa news, African news, Atlantic slave trade, breaking news, British Empire, Embassies and Consulates, Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, John Beecroft, News local news, newspapers, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian, United Africa Company, West Africa, World news
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January 13, 2011 by benim
On Sunday morning a small polling centre opened in London’s Methodist Central Hall, and all this week southern Sudanese throughout Europe have filed in, often dancing and singing, and cast their ballots to determine whether their home country thousands of … read more »
Posted in Analysis, News, North Africa, Sudan
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Tagged Africa news, African news, breaking news, British Empire, Embassies and Consulates, Geography of Sudan, IndepthAfrica, News local news, newspapers, Omar al-Bashir, President of the United Nations Security Council, Southern Sudan, Sudan, War in Darfur, William Hague, World news
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November 12, 2010 by benim
President John Evans Atta Mills, on the occasion of this year’s Remembrance Day on Thursday, laid a wreath on behalf of the Government and people of Ghana to honour Ghana’s military heroes. President Mills signed the Remembrance Book. The ceremony … read more »
Posted in Ghana, News, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, British Empire, Ghana, History, IndepthAfrica, Remembrance Day, Twentieth Century, Veterans Day, Wars and Conflicts, World War I
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