In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the
German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a …

Why did colonial subjects mobilize for national independence from the French empire? This
question has rarely been posed because the answer appears obvious: in the modern era …

In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's
Party, drew the world's attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked …

Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with
more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from …

It does not always happen that academic debates result in an agreed victory or a tidy
consensus. As often as not, the protagonists lose interest, or the terrain itself shifts. For that …

One of the innovative aspects of the mandates system of the League of Nations, the
oversight regime applied to the former German and Ottoman territories seized by the Allied …

Abstract The African campaigns of First World War should be thought of as more than
'sideshows.'Rather, historians should research local, ordinary African experiences of the war …

Если подойти к вопросу о том, какие страны являются постколониальными, с
формальной точки зрения, то таковыми следует признать все страны, когда-либо …

In their July 24, 1962 issue, the editors of the Daily Graphic channeled the outrage of their
readers in a strong condemnation of the country's entrepreneurial class of traders …

Africa's regional archives offer crucial records to explore the continent's postcolonial past.
Although these archives are often difficult to locate and access and are exposed to several …