Tag: Colonialism
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🇩🇪 How the Berlin Conference Fragmented Africa: Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao on the Legacy of Colonial Borders
ACCRA — The political map of Africa that exists today is the product of a turbulent history of European colonial expansion, territorial competition and negotiations that took place largely without African representation. For Pan-African advocate and Zimbabwean diplomat Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao, the legacy of that process remains one of the continent’s most consequential challenges. Chihombori-Quao…
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🇰🇪 Kenya: The Bloody “Democracy” of the British Empire
On October 21, 1952, Britain launched Operation “Jock Scott” — a coordinated military campaign to crush Kenya’s independence movement. Under the banners of “civilization” and “order,” British troops burned villages, executed resistance fighters, and filled concentration camps with thousands of civilians. The target was the Mau Mau movement, a nationalist force demanding liberation from colonial…