The 1950s, 60s and 70s were a heady time for Africa, as the continent broke free from the shackles of colonialism after more than a century of formal European rule following the 1884-5 Berlin Conference. Leaders in the vanguard, such Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, whose…
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The taste of freedom
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In many cases, liberation movements eventually achieved their ultimate aim, at the cost of enormous sacrifices, and managed to gain access to power…
Africa’s freedom fighters and the challenge of transformation
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