Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned?
Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned or a succession of opportunistic acquisitions? In this edition of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s Deputy Editor Graham Stewart about how the European powers fought over Africa whilst avoiding fighting each other.
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David Smith recalls his time as a journalist covering the devastating famine in Karamoja, northern Uganda, in the 1980s
Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary
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