Africa

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American soldiers land near Algiers
Torch: The Allied Invasion of French North Africa, 1942
The Benin Bronzes in the African Gallery at the British Museum.
LOOT: Colonial Collections and African Restitution Debates
Buildings along a waterfront in China
China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power
Letay Girmay, a resident of Hawzen.
The Ethiopian Civil War in Tigray
Cover of Health, Healing and Illness in African History by Rebekah Lee.
Africa's Medical History Revealed
General Idi Amin in August, 1973.
Idi Amin's Coup d’État, Uganda 1971
A carved wooden mural in Livingstone, Zambia.
The Year of Africa
A red AIDS ribbon outlined in candles
The Global History of HIV
Malawi
A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi
photos of people who died during Rwandan genocide
The Extermination of a Nation: The Genocide in Rwanda
Afrofuturism sign
Afrofuturism: Constructing a Better Future
A Biafran child suffering the effects of starvation due to the federal blockade during the Nigerian Civil War
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War
Ali, left, walking through the streets of Kinshasa in 1974.
The Rumble in the Jungle
Members of the 'born free generation' registering to vote for the first time.
South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid
Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.
Inequality After Apartheid
A celebration of South Sudan's independence in 2011.
Sudan in Crisis
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan
Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday
Artifact from Benin
Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."
HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future
Marvel character Black Panther
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story
A sign in Zambia in 2005.
A Century of HIV
The logo for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Genocide and Justice in Rwanda
A U.S. FBI agent sorts through rubble. (Photo by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)
The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings
The Great Mosque of Djenne. This image illustrates the influence of Islam in the region and the building style of the region. Its origins are unknown but it shows the power of the emperors who built this structure that still stands today.
A New View of West African Empires