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.'