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The world changed a great deal in the 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. Her son’s legacy may be determined by how he adapts to new dynamics within the UK and across the Commonwealth.
Music has often been used as a political tool to urge Kenyans to forget the sins of colonial and post-colonial regimes.
To prosper after the legacy of imperialism and colonization, Afghanistan needs partnerships and business investment, not bullets and bombs.
On-field demonstrations of remembrance and protest are able to harness potent political power.
How Harare has dealt with its urban canine citizens over the years following independence reflects the competing visions of a modern city.
Sports in Africa, Past and Present examines the role played by leisure and professional sports in shaping African life, including resisting colonialism.
These medical volunteers have been closely associated with several kinds of non-human actors, whose behaviour is worth examining in more detail.
The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire.
Two sequels which show how the Victorian novelist’s stories can be adapted to reflect post-colonial narratives.
The International Year of Indigenous Languages serves as a good impetus to start implementing policies that prioritises Africa’s own languages.
In the past few decades, there’s been more critique of global knowledge inequalities and the global North’s dominance.
Author V.S. Naipaul, who died on Aug. 11, both scorned and mirrored his Caribbean origins. At the University of the West Indies, students must reconcile this conflicted titan’s literary legacy.
The credibility of Zimbabwe’s elections will depend on issues like political violence and media freedom.
Marginalised Namibians should be encouraged to take up cameras to document their lives – on their own terms.
A long read on how science’s dark imperial past still shapes research today – and what to do about it.
South Africa has tended to prioritise race relations over gender relations since formal apartheid ended.
Africa needs a new strategy for mother-tongue based bilingual education, from primary through to tertiary level.
Writing and rewriting black sporting history is a means of redressing exclusion.
Research shows that Indigenous women are at greatest risk of injury within Canada. Income, education and housing inequities play a role. So does systemic racism and post-colonial trauma.
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Professor of English Language Teaching and Literacy Development, Rhodes University
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Emeritus Professor of African Linguistics, University of Leipzig
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study
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Lecturer in Politics, Aston University
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Author and Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Director: UCT eResearch, University of Cape Town
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Professor, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, Applied Language and Literacy Studies, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor in Language Education, member bua-lit collective, University of Cape Town
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Lecturer in African and Transnational History, University of York
