Nationale Eigenständigkeit wurde in der Sowjetunion stets unter den Verdacht des „bourgeoisen Nationalismus“ gestellt. Am Beispiel der KGB-Akten, die in der Ukraine seit 2015 für die Forschung zugängl...

Hunter-gatherers do not always seek total equality, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t egalitarian.

Ce numéro étudie l’histoire comme cause en explorant les histoires vernaculaires portées par un nombre grandissant d’acteurs sociaux sur l’ensemble du continent africain. Inspiré des travaux de l’hist...

On British “Spies” and News from India

Mehdi Labzaé, a researcher at France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), warns that the resumption of war in northern Ethiopia, combined with drought and blockades imposed by the (…)

Taxing the talent that builds American science

Formed in 2020–2021, the Sadiku group is the extension to northwestern Nigeria of the jihad waged in the country’s northeast by Jama’at Ahl al-Sunna li-Da’wa wal-Jihad (JASDJ), the outfit created b...

No one actually cares about how immigration impacts the economy

La semaine dernière, en Éthiopie, les principaux groupes armés du pays se sont réunis autour d’une coalition pour renverser le gouvernement fédéral. Des combats ont éclaté principalement au nord du pa...

Opnieuw oorlog in Tigray:"Mensen waren nog getraumatiseerd van vorige oorlog". Bekijk de video op VRT NWS: nieuws.

Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans

Former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma have launched several legal actions aimed at delaying testifying before the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry into delayed post-Truth and Reconciliation Commi...

The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture and herding was among the most profound economic changes that occurred in human history.

The report, which the White House called "out of touch," asserted that Guard troops have been deployed in “the wrong places for the wrong types of crime.”

from Aksum to the Swahili coast

Nach dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs strebte Tschetschenien nach Unabhängigkeit. Doch Russland versucht bis heute, die Region in seinen Machtbereich zu ziehen.

In 2022 my country entered a new era of cruelty. It will take more than one election to get the old, tolerant Sweden back, writes Swedish journalist Martin Gelin

YouTube video by Nota Bene

Clare Foges is Leading Britain's Conversation

Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity, inequalities, and political baggage inherent in such systems.

South Africa’s liberation archives are fragmented across countries and collections. Archivists, researchers and activists are working to map and improve access to records of the anti-apartheid struggl...

Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.

YouTube video by Prof James Ker-Lindsay

Large GDP revision shows Germany’s plight in a gentler light