Showing posts with label imperialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label imperialism. Show all posts
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Real Crisis In Congo: Rwanda, Uganda

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Betsy Pisik writes in the Washington Times, "Congo’s mineral wealth lures exploiters," on 8 September 2009 --The Democratic ...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Paris torture instruments auction suspended after protests

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Hands crusher (Collection Fermand Meyssonnier/Etude Cornette de Saint Cyr) According to the Lebanon Daily Star , "French torture ...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

African Colonization: Serial Enslavers

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As reported by the BBC "Slavery and the 'Scramble for Africa'" by Dr Saul David on 17 February 2011 -- What were the ...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Empire: From Conquest to Control

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Empire: From Conquest to Control: Gresham College Professor Richard J Evans (24 January 2012) In 1884, the Berlin Conference that set...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Tintin's Racist Past

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Traveling in a hammock, Belgian Congo [Photograph taken or provided by Émile Gorlia (1887-1966)] Hammocks carried by African porters we...
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Friday, October 28, 2011

The End Of Colonialism In Africa

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THE 1950's The 1950's was a time of accelerated political change. At the end of the Second World War there were only three independ...
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Friday, October 21, 2011

An Exhibition Has Uncomfortable Echoes Of The French Colonial 'Human Zoos'

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On Monday 2 May 2011, Charles Forsdick and David Murphy reported in the UK Guardian , "France must acknowledge its colonial past: ...