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“Hands Off Africa” Marking the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference in Accra in 1958

“Hands Off Africa” Marking the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference in Accra in 1958

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...
The Commonwealth: a strange beast, a relic of Empire…or not so bad after all?

The Commonwealth: a strange beast, a relic of Empire…or not so bad after all?

by chloe | Apr 25, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth

by Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow On the face of it, the Commonwealth is a strange beast. A hotchpotch of 53 nations, covering a quarter of the world’s land-mass, its leaders represent (after a fashion) a third of world’s population. Born out of the Empire, it...

Exploring the ‘Hidden Histories’ of Decolonization at the ICWS

by chloe | Feb 27, 2015 | Africa, Asia, Imperial and Postcolonial History

by Chris Moffat, ICWS Early Career Researcher in Commonwealth Studies  The Hidden History of Decolonization: What do the ‘migrated archives’ reveal about British withdrawal from Empire? Last Friday, 20 February 2015, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies convened an...

Reparations for Slavery: Can a claim be sustained?

by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Aug 13, 2013 | Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights

By Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a former Caribbean diplomat In 1838, British slave owners in the English-Speaking Caribbean received £11.6 billion in today’s value as compensation for the emancipation...

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