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From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.

What is a writing group? Why should you bother finding out? Since March 2021, the Collaborative Research Group Patterns of Living in Southern Africa has convened a small writing group to give particip...

A new report written by mining historian Duncan Money for Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) presents a compelling challenge to Anglo American's position that it is not responsible for the devastating lead pollution that blights the Zambian town of Kabwe.Kabwe, home to more than 300,000 people, is one of the world's most polluted towns. It grew in close proximity to the Broken Hill lead and zinc mine and smelter, which began extraction in 1904 and closed in 1994.Anglo American denies responsibility for the pollution, claiming it was only ever involved as an indirect minority shareholder that provided certain technical services to the mine. It claims it at no stage owned or operated the mine.Money found internal company records in a Zambian archive that appear to show that the mine operated as a direct subsidiary of Anglo American, taking orders directly from the then Johannesburg-based miner.

Mineral resources including copper are the defining economic question of Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema’s second term.

Zambia has throughout most of its colonial and post-colonial history been dependent on income from copper exports. In the colonial era, however, royalty charges on copper production went to the Bri...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: REPORT LAUNCH: UNDENIABLE Anglo American’s role in the Kabwe sacrifice zone. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive, published by DC Thomson. The Social History Archive is a comprehensive online archive ...

A 4,000-year-old customer complaint turned a Mesopotamian copper merchant into an unlikely internet celebrity. The rest of his cuneiform archive offers a glimpse into the dealings of one of the ancien...

Overturn the cancellation of the passports of Dr. Sishuwa Sishuwa and other Zambians

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: REPORT LAUNCH: UNDENIABLE Anglo American’s role in the Kabwe sacrifice zone. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...