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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Escalation of Demonstrations in Uganda
Increasingly violent battles between police and protestors within Uganda appear to have escalated over night and throughout the morning. Areas of Kampala, the Ugandan capital are virtually impassable according to local reports and the road from the airport at Entebbe … Continue reading
The History Blogging Project
Check out perspectivesonafrica’s contribution to the fantastic History Blogging Project here: http://www.historybloggingproject.org/2011/04/tag-team-blogging-the-pros-and-cons-of-the-communal-blog/ The History Blogging Project is an AHRC/University of Oxford/University of Roehampton initiative encouraging online enagagment among academic historians. You can find blogs there on all aspects of historical research- … Continue reading
perspectivesonafrica published!
For anyone interested in post-election Uganda check out this piece by perspectivesonafrica writer Aidan Stonehouse on Think Africa Press. http://thinkafricapress.com/uganda/buganda-and-besigye-post-election-uganda-0
Discord in Southern Sudan
Following the virtually unanimous decision to divide Sudan later this year little international attention has been devoted to the continuing discord in the proposed southern state. Fighting between the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and militia groups formerly linked to Khartoum … Continue reading
Constructing a continent
Studying African history has allowed me to appreciate the challenging nature of constructing a continent almost entirely through the eyes of European historians. Given the backdrop of colonial domination, it seems ironic that the story of African liberation has been … Continue reading
The Radicalism of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela has been universally praised by political leaders in ‘the West’ for his leadership of post-apartheid South Africa. However, Mandela’s relationship with ‘western’ governments hadn’t always appeared so harmonious. In 1980 conservative MP Teddy Taylor commented that Mandela “should be shot”, whilst as late as 1987 the ANC remained a “terrorist organisation” in the eyes of Margaret Thatcher. Characterisations such as these were partly informed by Mandela’s long held and vocal opposition to western imperialism in Southern Africa. In the 1950s, at the height of mass civil disobedience against oppressive race laws, Mandela vehemently opposed the involvement of both the U.S. and Britain in South African affairs. The piece, which appeared in the journal Liberation in March 1958 gives an indication of Mandela’s ideological anti-imperialism and raises questions over how Mandela as a global political figure is viewed today… Continue reading
Posted in South Africa
Tagged apartheid, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, terrorism, United Kingdom, United States of America
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A PhD in African History
My project examines the history of Borno, a region located nowadays in north-eastern Nigeria on the western shores of Lake Chad. The aim of my thesis is to obtain a broad sense of the question of the boundaries and territory … Continue reading
Posted in Borno, Nigeria
Tagged African History, borders, Borno, Nigeria, PhD, space, territory
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Get Involved!
perspectivesonafrica would welcome any and all contributions, big and small, from anyone with knowledge of events currently taking place across Africa. We would also love to hear from anyone with an understanding of the historical context of contemporary situations, for … Continue reading
African history in fiction: The novels that add flesh to historical bones
One of the best things about studying Africa is that so much of the continent’s post-colonial literature is imbued with personal, perceptive and challenging insights into some of the unavoidable themes of African history. Fictional accounts, often fused with local … Continue reading
Posted in African Literature
Tagged Africa, African History, Ghana, Idi Amin, Ivory Coast, Mau Mau, Nigeria, Uganda
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Ivory Coast 2011: what a rubbish film
The current war in Ivory Coast would make a very bad film script. So bad that no Hollywood firm would even fund such a rubbish film. Let’s have a look at the script. Since 2004, the United Nations have been … Continue reading
Posted in Ivory Coast
Tagged Abidjan, Alassane Ouattara, Duékoué, Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, Nicolas Sarkozy
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