African history 
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SOURCE: Africa is a Country
11/3/2020
Africa's Forgotten Refugee Convention
by Marcia C. Schenck
The Organization of African Unity proposed its own refugee convention in 1969, reframing the issue as one of solidarity rather than crisis, and pointing the way to a more humane and positive model of thinking about the problems of displacement and statelessness.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
11/12/2020
A Convergence of Calamities: The War Refugee Crisis will be Dwarfed by Climate
by Nick Turse
The crisis of people displaced by war is set to be compounded by the accelerating problems of desertification, drought, flooding and famine brought on by climate change.
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SOURCE: Society for US Intellectual History
8/22/2020
Spoiling the Egyptians: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Uses of Racist Scholarship
by L.D. Burnett
W.E.B. DuBois recognized that his efforts to write the history of Africa and African peoples would depend on his ability to use sources produced by racists without reproducing their political goals.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
8/20/2020
Between Africa and America: Recalibrating Black Americans' Relationship to the Diaspora
by Nemata Blyden and Jeannette Eileen Jones
Black people in the United States have maintained their own relationships with Africa—dating back to the 17th century—despite official US policy regarding the continent.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
8/18/2020
Architecting a “New Normal”? Past Pandemics and the Medicine of Urban Planning
by Jennifer Hart, Nate Plageman and Tony Yeboah
In our research efforts – and in those of many other urban scholars examining African contexts – we’ve repeatedly seen how medical experts and modernist urban planners exploited outbreaks of disease to legitimize their emerging systems of technical expertise and advance white supremacy, global capitalism, and imperial order.
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
7/28/2020
Is It Time to Repatriate Africa’s Looted Art?
Museums now face a moral reckoning over artifacts stolen by people who took colonial violence and racial superiority as a given. It is time to start having honest conversations about righting those wrongs.
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SOURCE: History Extra (BBC)
7/29/2020
Africa's Medieval Golden Age
by François-Xavier Fauvelle
During the Middle Ages, while Europe fought, traded, explored and evolved, Africa was a continent in darkness, 'without history' – or so the traditional western narrative runs. In fact, as François-Xavier Fauvelle reveals, it was a shining period in which great African cultures flourished.
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/22/2020
Learning From the Kariba Dam
The history of the Kariba Dam is the story of a war over the past and the future of a river.
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SOURCE: Reuters
6/11/2020
Find Better Ways To Depict History, Says South African #RhodesMustFall Activist
Countries must find more creative ways to depict their history than statues that glorify racists and colonialists, a founder of South Africa’s successful Rhodes Must Fall movement said on Thursday.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
6/9/2020
Statue of Leopold II, Belgian King Who Brutalized Congo, Is Removed in Antwerp
The statue was targeted by recent protests against racism and Belgium’s colonial history. The authorities said the statue would remain in a museum.
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5/10/2020
Trump’s Immigration Restrictions Echo Rhetoric of Africa’s White Settler Regimes
by Brooks Marmon
The Trump administration's adoption of immigration restrictions during the COVID crisis echoes the racial and economic agenda of the white settler regime in Rhodesia.
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5/3/2020
The Untold Story of Boko Haram’s Origins
by Jacob Zenn
Researchers who view Boko Haram as a Nigerian unsurgency need to understand its history as part of pan-African Islamist networks; responses to extremism must work across national borders.
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5/2/19
The Template for the Holocaust- Germany's African Genocide
by David Carlin
In the 20th Century’s first genocide, Imperial Germany’s campaign of annihilation provided precedents for the racial ideologies and exterminatory tactics of the Holocaust.
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2/16/19
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Nikki Taylor
by Erik Moshe
"We must be able to see and write about the humanity in both our heroes and villains."
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SOURCE: WSJ
8-21-17
Scholar of African history says his Jewish background didn’t stop him from writing about Muslims and Africa
by Charles L. Geshekter
"If I were to single out two cohorts whose members disproportionately enhanced the exchanges in my classrooms, they would be military veterans and strong Christians."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
5-2-17
African history as a discipline is on the rise
by Glen Ncube
But it’s one that raises many questions.
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9-7-14
The Sad Reason We Don't Know More About Ebola
by Pearl Duncan
It’s been said that one of the reasons the Ebola virus went out of control, undetected, is because so little attention is paid to Africa. Not only is little attention paid to issues in current Africa, but very little is known about African history.
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
Jesus, Santa, and Now "Sound of Music's" Mother Abbess?
by Shannen Dee Williams
The controversy over NBC's live remake of "The Sound of Music," starring black actress Audra McDonald as the Mother Abbess.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
12-16-13
Who Ain't a Slave?
by Greg Grandin
Historical fact and the fiction of 'Benito Cereno.'
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