In August this year, France’s rightwing President Nicolas Sarkozy during a lecture (as in talking down to; that was what it literally amounted to) at Chiekh Anta Diop University in Dakar described Africa as being ‘in the margin of history, immobile,’ as ‘never really entered into history’ and that colonialism ‘did not exploit anybody.’Since then [...]
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Schooling Sarko
Posted in history, Nicolas Sarkozy on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Archiving apartheid
Posted in history, South Africa on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Despite the antipathy of successive US administrations or the country’s mainstream media to national liberation struggles in Africa, a large solidarity movement existed here that had a significant impact on US policy between the end of the Second World War and the end of legal apartheid in South Africa in 1994. The activities of these [...]
Les Boyadjian
Posted in Haile Selassie, history, Paris, photography on August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Hotel De Sully in Paris (62, rue Saint-Antoine 75002) is hosting an exhibition on “Photographes arméniens à la cour du Négus” till September 2, 2007. The photos, from archives, include this 1920 portrait of Ras Tafari, the future Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, who would be eventuallu overthrown and executed in a 1974 military [...]
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