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A French map of Africa, c. 1911 (PD). By the time World War I broke out, Britain and France collectively controlled 45% of Africa’s population. Germany, late to the show, held on to 9%.
Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...
New maps of pre-colonial Africa provide context on the slaves who departed from the Bight of Benin. Those who boarded slave ships from the Bight of Benin, or the Slave Coast of Africa, lost more than ...
Africans and others have proposed many new maps of Africa. ... Let Culture and Nature Draw a Post-Colonial Map. Maano Ramutsindela, University of Cape Town An Indigenous State in Chile .
Africa's oldest map unveiled. By Alastair Leithead BBC correspondent in Cape Town The oldest map of the African continent, dating back to 1389, has gone on ... Organisers hope the exhibition ...
Fracturing states in Africa are redrawing colonial maps by J. Brian Atwood, opinion contributor - 07/05/21 4:01 PM ET. by J. Brian Atwood, opinion contributor - 07/05/21 4:01 PM ET.
A research project from a University of Colorado Boulder professor could help trace the path of African cultures that came to the Americas through slave ships, as well as provide more answers on ...
A Kenyan group called the Mombasa Republican Council is just the latest of Africa's now 20-plus separatist movements, according to the Guardian, which has charted them all in an interactive map.
Ethiopia and Eritrea are finally ready to accept a border demarcation by an independent panel, set up under accords ending a 1998-2000 war over economic and border issues that killed 70 000 people ...