by anna | Feb 8, 2019 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History
December 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference (AAPC), which was held in Accra, Ghana, between 5 and 13 December 1958. Under the slogan ‘Hands off Africa!!’, the AAPC was a watershed moment in the history of Africa’s liberation from...
by anna | Feb 7, 2019 | Africa, Human Rights, Media Freedom
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir at the 2015 AU Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. EPA/Kim Ludbrook Martin Plaut, School of Advanced Study Day after day Sudanese are taking to the streets to protest against the rule of Omar al-Bashir. The president, who himself...
by anna | Nov 27, 2018 | Africa, Human Rights, Media Freedom, Uncategorized
Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies A combination of fragile democracies, autocratic regimes and weak civil societies has put internet access and social media in Africa at serious risk. With an estimated 27.7% of Africa’s 1.2...
by anna | Nov 25, 2018 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, World War One
Martin Plaut Senior Research Fellow – ICWS The outbreak of the First World War, coming little more than a decade after the Anglo-Boer war had ended, faced South Africans with a conundrum. Should they join Britain and her allies, despite having fought so fiercely...
by anna | Nov 24, 2018 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, World War One
Dr Marika Sherwood Senior Research Fellow On 7 August 1914 Alhaji Grunshi of the Gold Coast Regiment, marching into the German colony of Togo, returned fire on the German-led police force. His was the first shot fired in what became World War 1. It was also the...
by chloe | Jul 30, 2018 | Africa, The Commonwealth
by Sue Onslow, ICWS Deputy Director Zimbabwe has long been particularly important to the moral purpose of the Commonwealth. Indeed, in the 1970s, Commonwealth support enabled Joshua Nkomo to meet world leaders in closed session at the Commonwealth heads of government...
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