Eve Blouin, daughter of African independence activist Andrée Blouin, speaks to The World’s Host Marco Werman about a new ...

Narrator: In the 1950s and 60s, many colonised countries that were part of the British Empire gained their independence. Ghana was one of the first African countries to do this. It had been part ...

Two formidable books, in unwitting rivalry, present us with the chronicle of Africa’s politics, wars, disease, and political and tribal violence over the past half-century, during which forty-eight of ...

France had promised the country independence ... My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria, published by Verso Books, goes on sale on 7 January in the UK ...

Their political ideas in turn became a source for the leaders of African independence movements of the fifties and sixties- Nkrumah ... Reprints of a growing number of Blyden's books and pamphlets can ...