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On July Fourth, the popular ice cream company Ben and Jerry’s posted on Twitter a land back post advocating for stolen U.S. land to be returned to Native communities.

Stack's Bowers is offering rare, top pop Belgian Congo banknotes in their June Collectors Choice Online (CCO) Auction of World Paper Money.

Stack's Bowers Galleries offered over 800 lots in its MIF Maastricht Currency Fair auction held after the Netherlands event with a 1944 Palestine Currency Board note bringing top bid of $84,000.

Arguing that the pioneering days were over and time had come to guarantee a return on investment, Leplae made a case for the colonizer’s house as the crucial instrument for a successful mise en valeur (exploitation) of the colonized territory of the Belgian Congo. “To colonize the Congo,” Leplae wrote, “it is necessary to make it inhabitable.”

In March 1911, a son was born to the royal family of Yuhi V Musinga and Radegonde Nyiramavugo Kankazi in Rwesero village of current Nyanza district, Southern province of Rwanda. He came to the world during a very difficult period of time since the accession to power of his father was quickly foll

Reviews of the year’s notable new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

A photo of two white children sitting next to a black toddler in a bird cage has been shared on social media in Africa alongside a claim that the girl on the left is Kate Foster, the British ambassador to Somalia. But this is false: the image was taken at least 70 years ago during Belgium’s colonial rule in the Congo.

Abdulrazak Gurnah vividly captures colonial and post-colonial histories of abuse and dispossession, but also startling acts of reclamation and renewal.

Daughter of the Sultan of Oman, Muscat, born to a fair Circassian concubine in Zanzibar, Salme, my sad heroine whom he begat, was born to fall just like a

“Afterlives,” the new novel from the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, is set in colonial-era German East Africa.