Decolonization

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Zimbabwe Flag against a blue sky
Colonial Land Injustices in Post-Independence Zimbabwe
A group of boys at Chirec International School in India playing Cricket, 2015.
Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game
Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.
Greenland Fantasies
Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India,
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster
fire at plant in Bhopal in background people lost in the fire
Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster
Lydia Walker
Postwar Decolonization and its Discontents
Patrice Lumumba, right, and Joseph Okito, left
Congolese Rumba: Soundtrack to African Political Struggle
Government of National Unity in 2009. Left to right: Arthur Mutambara, Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai, and Thabo Mbeki.
A Lesson for South Africa? Zimbabwe’s Path to Multi-Party Rule
Idi Amin addresses troops during a visit to border regions
Idi Amin's Uganda
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)
Tribal Militias in Sudan
Celebrations for Jamaican Independence, 2012.
Jamaican Independence
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
flags of India and Pakistan
India-Pakistan Partition
Members of the 'born free generation' registering to vote for the first time.
South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid
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
Black Panther
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story
Refugees crowded emergency trains leaving to India or Pakistan c. 1947-1953
India-Pakistan Partition
A group of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman
After Midnight
This image depicts Ali, a Jesus-like figure in Alawite theology.
Alawites and the Fate of Syria
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.
Fifty Years and Counting