Julius Nyerere called Africa’s colonial borders “ethnographical and geographical nonsense,” yet he urged building nations within those lines before seeking continental unity. This choice, cloaked as ...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has officially launched the implementation of its Africa-BB-Maps project, a broadband mapping initiative designed to bridge connectivity gaps in Africa.

Explore how concrete towers in the Global South reflect development, colonial legacies, and the quest for sustainable ...

Today we're looking at the Caproni Ca.133, a bomber that was designed for colonial use by Italy in the mid-1930s.

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Yet it is easy, only a few changes must be made. In 2009, one year before the soccer world cup in South Africa, the city of Cape Town launched the first edition of ‘Cape Town Green Map’, an online and ...

SO, there is a lot that we are not good at, but there is also a hellava lot that we are really good at. COPYRIGHT South Africa - The Good News. All rights strictly reserved. The views expressed on ...

Locke, Kant, Hume, and Voltaire—widely revered as Enlightenment thinkers—either justified slavery, classified African people as subhuman, or profited from colonial expansion. Their ...

A team of researchers has identified 162 protected areas (PAs) across Africa with above-average potential for nature conservation, arguing that their effective management could play a critical role in ...

In A Perfect Storm: Antisemitism in South Africa 1930-1948, (Jonathan Ball, 2015), Cape Town academic Prof Milton Shain provides the most thorough and detailed analysis of a phenomenon that, to date, ...

Looking at the dark history of Italian fashion by focusing on the impact of 1930s Fascism, this is the second edition of Eugenia Paulicelli's classic text. In Fashion under Fascism , Paulicelli ...