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African History
Deep, sourced articles on the history that shaped Africa and its diaspora — not tweet-sized, the real story.
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The African Diaspora in the Caribbean and the Americas: A History
How the transatlantic slave trade forged a new African world across the Americas, and how its descendants transformed global culture.
02Independence Movements & Decolonization: How Africa Broke Free from Colonial Rule
From Libya's 1951 independence to Namibia's in 1990, the story of how African nations dismantled European colonial rule.
03African Kingdoms & Empires: The Great States of Precolonial Africa
From Nubia's pharaohs to the Zulu Kingdom, precolonial Africa built empires, city-states, and trade networks that rivaled any in the medieval world.
04Pan-Africanism and the Civil Rights Movement: A Shared Freedom Struggle
How the fight for Black freedom in America and the fight for African liberation grew from the same roots and shaped each other for a century.