Yet, continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The ...

Africans and others have proposed many new maps ... Africa, the nations could acknowledge that the Kgalagadi micro-region represents the land of the San. They should think of themselves, and live ...

But our new book, “Authoritarian Africa: Repression, Resistance ... and detain political leaders on flimsy charges. When colonial regimes came under threat, their default response was invariably ...

Once in office, they used the same laws against their ... Colonial regimes criminalised indigenous belief systems under “witchcraft” laws, branding African spiritual practices as “sorcery”. These ...

statues in Africa fell like dominoes. Their purpose was obvious. Sculptures of colonial rulers, he says, represented white supremacy. NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF: It's racial theory incarnate. And so it's ...

Cameroon argued that this agreement put the peninsula within their borders. Nigeria said the same. Cameroon's yellowed maps were ... highlighted Africa's commitment to colonial borders drawn ...

The impact of colonial rule on sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the ... When colonial regimes came under threat, their default response was invariably intimidation and violence.