True repentance on the part of the West, who divided and plundered Africa, must go beyond symbolic gestures, by not only providing assistance to the continent, but must seriously finance its revival, ...
Yet even in this context of Pan-Africanism, the candidates largely avoided confronting the deeper realities of neo-colonialism. Africa’s engagement with global powers. Resource extraction and ...
01/29/2025 January 29, 2025 German merchants were key players in Africa's colonization, with Hamburg businessman Adolph Woermann at the forefront. His vast shipping empire dominated West African ...
The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...
The systematic colonisation of Africa, which gathered momentum in the 1880's, was not even on the horizon in the first half of the 19th century. Europeans had confined themselves to trading mainly ...
My Country, Africa is an intense history of colonialism. Blouin’s story serves as a microcosm for the near misses, cycles and reason-defying hope that characterise Africa’s past.
In 1787, two decades before African colonization by American-born blacks became a national debate, Boston's Black Masons put forward a plan to return themselves and their families to Africa.
The 2024-25 Fellows are publicly engaged in championing the arts and boldly interrogate the relationship between modes of communication and its connection to colonialism. Join us to learn how the 2024 ...