February 26th marked the 140th anniversary of one of the most consequential events in the history of Western imperialism: the ...

Social critic and poet, Agbeye Oburumu, has emphasised the need for Africa to be free from its current state marked by widespread poverty, violent conflicts, human rights violations, and inadequate ...

High in the celestial heavens – or, more likely, somewhere hotter deep beneath our feet – the spirits of Robert Mugabe and ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has signaled a change that could mean the difference between life and death for millions ...

Taken from Culture and Imperialism, Edward W. Said. The nineteenth century saw immense changes in Africa. Some were driven by famine and disease. Some changes were the result of the territorial ...

After the launch of his latest book, Professor Adekeye Adebajo, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of ...

Even Boaten, who invested enormous energy in efforts to promote the ‘denuclearisation of Africa’, tied the reduction of military spending to ‘saving resources for [economic] development’. But ‘nuclear ...

The brutal reality is that the 7-1 bench has ushered in a type of rugby imperialism. It works for those countries with a huge ...

the scramble for Africa; the Victorians and popular imperialism; the contribution of empire to the First and Second World Wars; fast exit strategies; violent decolonisation; race and immigration; post ...

Many novels among the 16 chosen for the 2025 longlist explore the ramifications of global events, from the shadows of imperialism and 20th century conflict to the continuing impact of immigration ...