Banana Republics
Western leftists are arguing among themselves about whether there will be bananas under socialism. In Africa, however, bananas do not necessarily represent the vagaries of capitalism.
Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia - BBC News
Ancient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago.
Africa’s linguistic diversity goes largely unnoticed in research on multilingualism
Our recent study provides new empirical evidence of the geographic bias in multilingualism research published in high-impact scientific journals. We show that the regions most commonly studied are not particularly multilingual. The reverse is also true: the most multilingual regions are massively understudied in research on multilingualism
Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire | Mau Mau | The Guardian
The Long Read: The Harvard historian Caroline Elkins stirred controversy with her work on the crushing of the Mau Mau uprising. But it laid the ground for a legal case that has transformed our view of Britain’s past
Unearthing a Long Ignored African Writing System, One Researcher Finds African History, by Africans | The Brink | Boston University
A note in Ajami, a modified Arabic script, from Fallou Ngom's late father opened the door to a lifetime of discovery in African language and history.
Mapping Disinformation in Africa – Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Russia has pioneered a model of disinformation to gain political influence in Africa that is now being replicated by other actors across the continent.
The (African) Arab Cup
Morocco’s World Cup heroics are forging a new, dissident Third-World solidarity, reflecting the multifaceted nature of Moroccan identity itself: simultaneously Arab, African, and Amazigh.
Forgotten photos show how Kenyan archaeologists unearthed secrets of their own country | Archaeology | The Guardian
Exhibitions in UK and Africa rewrite history by celebrating discoveries of overlooked black excavators in colonial era
Many of the Kenyan excavators, who would typically open the trenches and dig the various layers by following the various strata, had expert local knowledge about the ancient sites, including their geology, histories and oral traditions. This knowledge was highly prized by the European scholars, who rarely did any digging themselves. But it was colonial practice, to intentionally “forget” the contributions of Africans to African history, Abungu said. “And the scholars went along with that.”