Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe died in 2019.
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Moore did not unearth any treasures in his research of Mugabe’s legacy. He has not even drawn a map that might lead us to them.
A choir performs during independence day celebrations in Kenya.
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Music has often been used as a political tool to urge Kenyans to forget the sins of colonial and post-colonial regimes.
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo’s sculpture dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Transatlantic slave trade on display in Montgomery, Alabama.
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The turn towards authoritarianism, xenophobia and racism in Western democracies makes it unlikely that former Western slave-trading nations will agree to reparations in the near future.
Hiroshima after the US military dropped the atomic bomb on 6 August 1945.
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Kwame Nkrumah and Ali Mazrui associated nuclear weapons with imperialism and racism, but proposed different approaches to address the problem they present.
Dance troupes mark the anniversary of Ghana’s independence in the grounds of Kwame Krumah’s masuoleum in Accra in 2007.
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Studies of Kwame Nkrumah have been influenced by the political climate both within and outside Ghana.
Crossing borders have always been tough for Africans.
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The introduction of an African passport has the capacity to bring about increased migration of Africans within Africa.
Premier of the Western Cape Helen Zille.
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For Western Cape Premier Helen Zille to invite black South Africans, in a casual manner, to differentiate the legacies of colonialism is asking a lot.