Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words ...
Since the Cold War, competition between foreign powers for influence in Africa has spurred a great debate. With a focus on ...
When African countries gained independence from their colonial rulers, they faced many changes. One of the most important changes for many countries was switching from the colonial currency to their ...
Modernism in the bravest new world. Not urbanism, but urbanity. The latter noun is often misunderstood to mean cityness when really what it refers to, in its fuller sense, is culture, civilisation and ...
The new domain : architecture at the time of liberation / Manuel Herz -- Ghana -- Architecture after independence / Hannah Le Roux -- Senegal -- Henri Chomette : Africa as a terrain of architectural ...
In the brief history of African decolonisation, it was a watershed year. Seventeen African territories won their independence from their European colonial masters that year. These ranged from Nigeria ...
Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words ...