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. …
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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 …
China’s long history in Africa
Despite the current frenetic media salvo unrelentingly declaring China’s “new inroads” into Africa, nothing could be further from the truth. China’s presence in Africa dates …