Africa

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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
A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, 2014. UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Sahelian Arabs and their Role in the Sudan War
Idi Amin addresses troops during a visit to border regions
Idi Amin's Uganda
Bob Campbell Photograph Of Dian Fossey Filming Orphaned Gorillas Coco And Pucker, Rwanda 1969, Bob Campbell
Gorillas in the Mist: The Life and Legacy of Dian Fossey
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier
Rumble in the Jungle: The 1974 Foreman/Ali Heavyweight Title Fight
FLN soldiers next to an Algerian Flag, by Zdravki Pecar, CC BY-SA 4.0
The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)
Tribal Militias in Sudan
Thomas Sankara
Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso
In Mauritania, Aissata Abdoul Diop shows how the maize ears have dried in the drought stricken garden, 2012. 
Hunger Is Not Eradicated: The Food Crisis in Africa
Nigerians use phone booth under a poster against Biafran separatists and their leader, General C. Odumegwu Ojuku. 1967.
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - The Biafran War
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
woman with futuristic facial wear
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