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Sudan in Crisis

… changed tone, declaring a one-year state of emergency and dissolving the government. Yet the protests persisted … fought between the central Sudanese government troops and southern guerillas. There are several immediate causes of … British planned to attach southern Sudan to British East Africa, a British protectorate that became Kenya. Another …
American soldiers land near Algiers

Torch: The Allied Invasion of French North Africa, 1942

… On November 8, 1942, American and British forces invaded beaches and ports across French North Africa. Officially opening a long-awaited second front … to that point in world history.  The path to Northwest Africa, however, was never a foregone conclusion. America’s …
A U.S. FBI agent sorts through rubble. (Photo by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)

The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings

… organization bombed American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks utilized massive … showing Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in east Africa. The attacks marked a dramatic escalation in al … thousands of Muslims in North Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. The U.S. embassy in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania …
Cartoon in Punch, 1906.

For Iraq, a Lesson from Africa

… But it turns out that there's much to learn about how to handle the Iraqi quagmire by looking to Africaand, of all places, to the Democratic Republic of … institutions, strongmen will take over, as has happened in Africa. Security and elections are necessary but not …
Sheikha Mozah

Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa

… History Talk , guests Johanna Sellman , Gulsah Toronoglu , and Sabra Webber discuss the diverse and dynamic history of women in the Middle East and North Africa. Highlighting the region's great range of historical … media turns its attention to the Middle East and North Africa, the question of women's rights frequently comes to …
Zimbabwe Flag against a blue sky

Colonial Land Injustices in Post-Independence Zimbabwe

… Zimbabwe , formerly Southern Rhodesia, gained independence from British … continues to grapple with the international community over land questions, which are rooted in the British conquest in … in 1884-85. At that meeting, the European powers carved the African continent among themselves based on their strategic, …
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.

Fifty Years and Counting

Review of The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young (Chicago: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
… Initial hopes of peace and free and fair political elections after colonization … disease and civil warfare. This is a standard narrative of African history in the post-independence era, and Crawford … of the Sahel closely resemble those occurring in areas south of it, albeit in some instances with a different set …
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

… began in the 1980s, when news first broke of a mysterious and highly deadly disease. In reality, however, the history … trends of the 20th century: from European colonialism in Africa, to the proxy conflicts fought between allies of the … of the Black Panther Story and The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa. ( Image …
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)

Tribal Militias in Sudan

… The war between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary militia Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that … Muammar Gaddafi conceived of an “Arab belt” across Sahelian Africa . In 1981, a Libyan-supported group called … Laws and the most hawkish in his quest for war in the South. Sadiq al-Mahdi’s resolve to institute some form of …
Marvel character Black Panther

Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story

The fictional story of Wakanda has real historical origins in nuclear-age Congo.
… the real historical origins of the fictional country of Wakanda and its roots in a Cold War crisis and an African mine. Written and narrated by Prof. Thomas McDow. … historical origins in nuclear-age Congo. … Thomas McDow … Africa … Democratic Republic of Congo … Film/Television … …
Ruins of Chorrillos after the battle of January 13, 1881. Photograph by Eugene Courret. Glass Plate. National Library of Peru Collection.

The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America

… which pitted Chile against the allied forces of Peru and Bolivia, had a profound, long-lasting impact on the geopolitical balance of South America. The conflict resulted in a clear victory for … as the War of the Confederation (1836-1839) and the Spanish-South American War (1864-1866). Initially, nitrate was …

South America’s ‘Sleeping Giant’ Wakes: Brazil’s 2010 Election

… Rousseff of the leftist Worker's Party (PT), who was the hand-picked successor of Brazil's current president, Luiz … Brazil's regional leadership by forming the Union of South American Nations and re-launching Mercosur, the South American free trade zone. Lula has campaigned to win a …
A map showing Israel and Palestine

Palestine and Israel: A Case of Incomplete Decolonization

… of civilizations? A centuries-old conflict between Islam and the West? Civilization vs. terror or the modern vs. the … settler state, such as the former colonial Algeria, Kenya, Southern Rhodesia, Angola, Mozambique and apartheid South Africa. Zionists insist on Israel’s historic right to …

A Century of HIV

… before bursting on to a worldwide stage in the early 1980s and rewriting the script of human progress against disease. … a human living about one hundred years ago in Equatorial Africa became infected by a closely related virus in the … Sangha River, a tributary to the Congo, that runs through southeastern Cameroon. Colonial Africa: The Crucible of HIV …
State of Israel Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, pictured during a defense meeting held at the Pentagon in Washington, District of Columbia (DC).

Is Sharon Following in the Steps of Nixon and de Klerk?

… the settlers, make nice with the Palestinian Authority and take serious steps toward a long-term peace that would … is President Nixon’s trip to China in 1972. The other? South African president F.W. de Klerk’s freeing of Nelson Mandela …
President Lyndon B. Johnson giving a speech about the Voting Rights Act with a statute of President Abraham Lincoln in the background.

The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History

… At July's Republican convention, Texas Governor and presidential candidate George W. Bush won kudos for his … to a proud past, he suggested that his party had embraced African-Americans until only recently. His plan to win them … he'll actually have to abjure his party's 32-year-old "Southern Strategy" of playing upon racial fears to court …
2006 map of North Korea and South Korea.

Applying the Antarctic Solution to the Korean Nuclear Impasse

… Isn’t it ironic that while South Korea is locked in a dispute with North Korea over its … obscure, but in reality it’s a model for achieving peace and disarmament on the Korean peninsula. In 1958 President … is the goal of the six-party talks involving North Korea, South Korea, the United States, China, Russia and Japan. …
UN forces crossing the 38th Parallel in 1950.

Why We Need to Rearm Iraq

… we rebuild the Iraqi military forces. It’s a time-consuming and very expensive prospect. But if we fail to do it now, … in Iraq akin to what this country has maintained in South Korea for the past 50 years. Either situation would be … a Soviet zone to the north and an American zone to the south. The Soviet Union withdrew its occupation forces in …
Cover of The Battle of Adwa African Victory in the Age of Empire by Raymond Jonas

When Ethiopia Stunned the World

Review of The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire, by Raymond Jonas (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2011)
… a world turned upside down. So begins The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire. While no attribution … of Adwa in 1896 was the result of Italian encroachments south of their colony of Eritrea on the Red Sea. Though … by the Treaty of Wichale (1889) to friendship, the Italians and Ethiopians had different opinions about the nature of …
Tanks and soldiers in parade in Pyongyang

North Korea: The Myth of a Hermit Kingdom

… In this episode of  History Talk , hosts Brenna Miller and Jessica Blissit speak with three experts on North Korea: … Peninsula. Taken at night from space, the image shows South Korean cities and towns alight throughout the country, … of defectors from North Korea that have settled in the south or elsewhere. But there's always questions about their …
Artifact from Benin

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

… during the heyday of European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be returned to Africa, sending shockwaves throughout the museum world. “I … human remains, and particularly those of Sarah Baartman to South Africa. There's also the example of the return of an …
Custis Lee (1832–1913) on horseback in front of the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, Virginia on June 3, 1907, reviewing Confederate Reunion Parade.

Trent Lott and the Collapse of Southern Mythology

… With 2002 drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national … new in a region whose history is suffused with guilt, pride and the divisive issue of race. But the haunting of southern politics has long had more to do with the living …