Africa’s unremembered remembered
For over a century, white soldiers were remembered by name in memorials but the black and brown who perished in British colonial uniform were ignored. Finally, a great wrong is being righted.
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Manufacturing consent in the digital age
In the shadow of the West’s imperial wars, propaganda is now re-fashioning itself. By Boubacar Boris Diop. In mid-June 2012, millions of people received an email …
Sierra Leone: radiance of tomorrow
Sierra Leone’s child-soldier done good, Ishmael Beah, has published another book following on from his first in 2007, which detailed his gruesome life as a …
Rwanda: A survivor’s story
This is the story of a survivor of Rwanda’s genocide. Angelique Umugwaneza, a Hutu, was 13 at the time it happened in 1994. Her new book about …
South Sudan: Is the revolution eating its own children?
Two-and-a-half years after independence, South Sudan, Africa’s youngest country, has slipped from the lofty ideas of unity, peace, and nationhood into the chaos of war. …
Britain: Divided by race, united in war
They came – they saw – and together they conquered. Twice within the last hundred years in the two world wars, whose centenary and 75th …