Africa

Message by Oliver Tambo on the 40th anniversary of the three doctors` pact, 09 March 1987

On behalf of the National Executive Committee, the entire membership of the African National Congress, its military wing...

Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988

When the terrible news was announced to the world on 1 March 1986 that Olof Palme had fallen to an assassin`s bullet, th...

Letter from Oliver Tambo to the Prime Minister of Lesotho, Dr. Leabua Jonathan, 13 January 1982

We received with great shock and anger the news of the brazen and outrageous invasion of the Kingdom of Lesotho by the r...

The Mau Mau Uprising

The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 as a reaction to inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The respons...

Zonderwater

Situated in the Highveld of Gauteng, just outside Cullinan near Pretoria. The Zonderwater museum and the Italian Militar...

Chieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa

Introduction In a democratic society, the observance of chieftaincy faces many problems. One of the key issues relates ...

Xenophobia by Lutho Hopa

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Zambezi by Nico Carstens

Nicolaas Cornelius Carstens

Legendary accordion player and composer of boeremusiek.

‘Between Two Fires’: Racial Populism, Indian Resistance and the Beginnings of Satyagraha in the Transvaal, 1902–06 by Jeremy Martens (The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2016, Vol. 44, No. 4)

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Milton Obote by Angela Thompsell updated 28 February 2016

Apollo Milton Obote (some say Milton Apollo Obote) was the 2nd and 4th President of Uganda. He first came to power in 19...

The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back by Charles Quist-Adade (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016

Nkrumah wanted to industrialize Ghana within a generation, and everything was on course until the Americans and their Br...

If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016

The battle - and the greater narrative of Ethiopia’s independence – is a powerful symbol of African resistance to Europe...

Turning Adwa into a global heritage site of Pan-African struggle by Mammo Muchie (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016

March 1 marks the 120th anniversary of the Battle of Adwa, a decisive victory of Ethiopia over Italian colonialism. This...

Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997

Kamuzu Banda (Hastings Kamuzu Banda), medical practitioner and politician: born 14 May 1898; Minister of Natural Resourc...