BHM: British brutality in East Africa
David Anderson is a historian, researcher and author whose book, Histories of the Hanged, is a seminal work on the Mau Mau’s liberation struggle in …
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BHM: The Lumumba saga
Ludo de Witte explained to New African that in writing his bestseller, The Assassination of Lumumba, he made extensive use of the Belgian Foreign Ministry’s …
BHM: How Europe covered its back
Vincent Hiribarren is a lecturer in World History at King’s College, London. His work has led him to study many colonial-era archives of European countries …
BHM: Checkmating China in Africa 50 years ago
As Western governments’ perceived fear of Chinese influence in Africa continues to make news, we reveal how recently declassified official British government papers show that …
BHM: The power of memory against forgetting in South Africa
The South Africa experience with archives has its differences with other African countries, but also its similarities. Just as the colonialists in Africa sought to …
BHM: The records of Empire
On 5 April 2011, The Times reported that British attempts “to cover up one of the darkest episodes in British colonial history have been revealed …