Dr. Livingstone, I presume? Born in 1813 in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, Livingstone was quite poor. His family worked in the textile mills and he started there too as a.
On October 10, 1947, African workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway in modern Senegal went on strike with the demand that they be treated equal to French workers. This is a.
This odd editorial in Bloomberg requires a discussion. Basically, it explores the problem of fast fashion and particularly its environmental impact. Fair enough, these are problems. But the framing is.
On May 15, 1905, a Maraka noble in modern-day Mali killed a slave who was part of a broader slave exodus that helped bring the end to official slavery in.
I don't mean to deviate from my usual bright cheery self, but the violent death of Wayne Lotter, one of the leading conservationists in Africa fighting the poaching epidemic, reminds.
On Monday of this week, new allegations about the egregious human rights abuses of the Syrian government's.
One of the greatest arguments in favor of Fidel Castro was his anti-colonial, anti-racist foreign policy in Africa. Two essays discuss this critical part of his.
A long-time human rights worker, who has written reports for Human Rights Watch, focusing primarily on Africa, takes to the Boston Review to revisit his own sins, mistakes, and regrets,.
