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A rendering of the Grand Renaissance Dam.
Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam
This Cold War-era poster carries the slogan 'Chairman Mao is the great savior of the revolutionary peoples of the world' and an illustration of African freedom fighters reading a copy of Mao's little book of quotations.
A New World Order? Africa and China
A photograph of Dr. David Livingstone from 1857.
Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire
Cover of The Battle of Adwa African Victory in the Age of Empire by Raymond Jonas
When Ethiopia Stunned the World
In Senegal, a protester holds a sign rejecting "monarchy" in the form of proposed changes to the constitution which would extend the current president's term in office.
"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent
Soldiers patrol the boundary between Eritrea and Ethiopia after two years of fighting in 2000.
Avoiding the Scourge of War: The Challenges of United Nations Peacekeeping
A girl stands amid the graves of 70 children on the outskirts of Dadaab. The long desert journey to the relief camps has claimed many lives.
Famine Strikes Again. Will America Respond?
Members of the Free Officers welcomed by crowds in Cairo in January 1953.
The Egyptian Middle Class Is Disgruntled. Again.
Jenni Williams (Left) and Magodonga Mahlangu (Center) of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) receiving the Robert F. Kenndey Human Rights Award from President Barack Obama in November 2009.
The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe
Soccer fans, painted in the colors of South Africa's flag, celebrate the coming of the 2010 FIFA World Cup to South Africa.
The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa
The original Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary, known popularly as the Treaty of Tripoli, written in Arabic, signed 4 November 1796.
Obama Disregards History in Favor of Diplomacy
A 17th-century map depicting the locations of the Periplus of the Erythraean
Pirates of Puntland, Somalia
A refugee camp holding thousands of displaced Darfurians/Sudanese in the aftermath of war in the western part of Sudan.
'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict
The Kenya flag.
Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya
Cartoon in Punch, 1906.
For Iraq, a Lesson from Africa
The Algerian flag.
Torture in Iraq: Lessons from Algeria
A map showing Israel and Palestine
Palestine and Israel: A Case of Incomplete Decolonization