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The story of one woman’s fight to gain African independence from colonial rule
She was once called “the most dangerous woman in Africa.” But Andrée Blouin, who took part in multiple struggles for ...
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African struggles for independence
Narrator: In the 1950s and 60s, many colonised countries that were part of the British Empire gained their independence. Ghana was one of the first African countries to do this. It had been part ...
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SADC pushes for Western Sahara independence
The regional bloc also undertook to raise the issue of Western Sahara in all multilateral fora and bilateral engagements with ...
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Andrée Blouin Was Africa’s Forgotten Power Broker
The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary Andrée Blouin tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic ...
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THE 1950's
The country which made the biggest impact on African nationalists was India which was led to independence by Mahatma Gandhi in 1947. His confident doctrine of nonviolence, and his track record ...
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Art and African Independence at the Centre Pompidou: “Black Paris” an exhibition that pays homage to postcolonial movements (1950-2000)
From the creation of the magazine Présence Africaine to that of the Revue noire, “Black Paris” retraces the presence and influence of black artists in France from the 1950s to the 2000s with 150 ...