Mahatma Gandhi has been variously described as an anti-colonial protester, a religious thinker, a pragmatist, a radical who used non-violence effectively to fight for causes, a canny politician and a whimsical Hindu patriarch… But was India’s greatest leader also a racist?
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Museum of Black Civilisations aims to ‘decolonise knowledge’ | Al Jazeera
A large museum will open in Dakar, 52 years after Senegal’s first president presented a post-colonial cultural vision.
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Reclaiming Tradition: How Hair Beads Connect Us to Our History | OkayAfrica
A history of beads and African hair jewelry told through the unforgettable story of Baroness Floella Benjamin.
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8 African heroes who led massive slave rebellions in the Caribbean but are less celebrated | Face2Face Africa
A little over the past decade, the stories of powerful kings and queens who worked hard at building powerful kingdoms and sustaining them for centuries have been unearthed to redefine the history of Africa as opposed to what has been fed to the masses by the West for several decades.
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Oldest Known Drawing by Human Hands Discovered in South African Cave | The New York Times
The artifact, which scientists think is about 73,000 years old, predates the oldest previously known modern human abstract drawings from Europe by about 30,000 years
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The 40-year-old “prophetic” novel that predicted the troubles of modern-day Zimbabwe | Quartz Africa
If Dambudzo Marechera had not existed, Zimbabwe would have invented him.
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Kwaku Anansi: The only folklore character to travel out of Africa and become a global symbol of resistance | Face2Face Africa
KOLUMN Magazine celebrates the lives of People of Color by giving our world texture.The West African folktale character is a spider with human characteristics from the Akan culture of West Africa.
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Growing up with Nelson Mandela | Deutsche Welle
On his 100th birthday, people all over the world are celebrating Nelson Mandela’s legacy: as South Africa’s first black president and a giant of the anti-apartheid struggle. But Mandela was also a family man.
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What Nelson Mandela Lost | The New York Times
The South African freedom fighter’s letters from prison remind us that the separation of families is the ultimate expression of state power.
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African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century | The Nation
An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.
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