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Bill Freund (1944-2020): Pioneering economic historian of Africa and South Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2020In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, ANC, Chicago, SOAS, SOUTH AFRICA, UKZN, Yale UniversityNo CommentsViews:
Bill Freund (1944-2020): Pioneering economic historian of Africa and South Africa

By Robert Morrell• On Monday, 17 August, Bill Freund died in Durban. He was 76 years old. He was among the most eminent of South Africa’s historians and published prodigiously broadly in the... Read more

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What Should Be Worrisome About the Death of Nigeria’s Prof David West?

Posted By: adminon: November 11, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, McGill University, Robert Cox, Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, TSM, University of Ibadan, Yale UniversityNo CommentsViews:
What Should Be Worrisome About the Death of Nigeria's Prof David West?

Nigeria’s Prof David West is dead. The news of that has already spread across the country. People live longer than the age of 83 nowadays but even then, 83 is still advanced in the comparati... Read more

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The History They Want Us to Forget

Posted By: adminon: February 07, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Kwame Nkrumah, Leopold Senghor, Marcus Garvey, Moise Tshombe, Paul Cuffee, Robert Farris Thompson, W.E Du Bois, Yale UniversityNo CommentsViews:
The History They Want Us to Forget

The History They Want Us to Forget By Henry Louis Gates Jr. Originally published February 4th, 2017 by New York Times under the title “The History the Slaveholders Wanted Us to Forget”, this... Read more

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