The Haitian revolution was the first by a former slave colony and was to inspire other emancipation movements across the New World.
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who freed Haiti from French colonial rule in 1804, is revered as a spirit in the Haitian religion. Now he’s become an icon of the uprising against President Jovanel Moïse.
Women of color in public office often face great scrutiny and hostility. New research shows how France’s first black female senators used their experience fighting Nazis to pass landmark legislation.
Gabon’s strongman president, Ali Bongo, is barely clinging to power after contested elections, a stroke and a coup attempt. The Bongo family has run this stable central African nation for 52 years.
The annual Carnival rituals subvert traditional French notions of family and sexuality.
A renamed Brooklyn street celebrates Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a Haitian slave turned president. For centuries his legacy was tarnished by allegations that Haiti’s revolution led to ‘white genocide.’
To sustain geo-political relations with French-speaking Pacific nations in the future, we need to change the way French is taught to young Australians.
West Africa has lessons to learn from its ancient empires and colonial governments on regional trade and integration.
Despite being led by different presidents over the past six decades, the French government’s policy on Africa has been faithful to its neo-colonial roots. Will Macron’s government be any different?
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Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University
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Senior Lecturer in History, The Open University
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Assistant professor of political science, St. Petersburg College
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Associate Dean Teaching & Learning and Senior lecturer, James Cook University
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Visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paulo and Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Associate Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai
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Reader in Economics, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer (Development Economics/Project Appraisal), University of Bradford
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Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Michigan
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University
