Back to Africa movement gathers pace
Although Ghana officially launched the Return to Africa project last year, the history of Africans in the diaspora returning to the Mother Continent goes back …
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A corner of Africa in Iran
In the southern port city of Bandar-e-Bushehr is a thriving community of Afro-Iranians, many of whom arrived as slaves in the 18th or 19th century. …
LONGREAD: Remembering Steve Bantu Biko
Today marked 41 years since anti-apartheid hero Steve Bantu Biko was brutally murdered at the hands of racist South African police while in their custody. …
Can the Sahel recapture its lost glory?
Today the vast Sahel region, lying between North and sub-Saharan Africa, is characterised by general poverty, lawlessness and the presence of terrorist groups. But it …
SS Mendi: South Africa’s forgotten shipwreck
On 21 February 1917, at the peak of WW1, a ship transporting South African auxiliary servicemen was struck by another and sank, killing 616 African …
Chinese lessons: Past, present and future
China has achieved enormous economic success since the Chinese Communist Party rose to power on 1 October 1949. But that success has come at a …