The colonization of Africa was an extractive project driven by a lust for resources. The extraction was done with notable brutality in parts of central Africa and with a distinct lack of sentiment ...

The second UN secretary-general remains a controversial figure in the history of the Cold War. In some accounts, Dag Hammarskjold appears as a Machiavellian agent of the West; in others, he comes ...

Students want colonial symbols, such as this statue of Cecil John Rhodes, gone from their universities. EPA/Nic Bothma South African universities have become protest sites. Beginning in 2015 and ...

Decolonisation and Africanisation may appear to be new ideas on South Africa’s higher education landscape. But a tertiary college established nearly 30 years ago shows that this is not the case. The ...

A documentary, ‘The Decolonisation of Africa’, has premiered at The Metropolitan Club, Lagos. Hosted by Accelerate Media Group, Executive Producer, Colette Otusheso explained the origin of the project ...

….the question is not whether Fourah Bay College deserves admiration. It is whether its intellectual history must be narrated through a metaphor that reinscribes colonial hierarchies of value. Why ...