anti-colonial movements

Veteran pan-Africanist and anti-imperialist writer Leo Zeilig speaks to Geeska about the conflict in the DRC, self-emancipation, and Africa’s future.…

Yusra Abdullahi, a historian of African activism at the UN, explores how the SYL leveraged the organisation to challenge colonial domination and advocate for Somali self-determination.…

In 1980, Somali scholar and anti-imperialist psychiatrist Hussein Bulhan wrote a paper on the colonial partitioning of the Horn of Africa and its effects on the Somali psyche. He ambitiously attempted to sketch out its impact on the Somali mind and culture.…

yo, bust this Black to the future, back to the past, Def Jam    When flag independence arrived across Africa, our anti-colonial luminaries often spoke of the promise and spectacular potential of what lay ahead for the continent. Thomas Sankara called on Africans to “to turn your back…

In 1957, a controversial Egyptian diplomat was murdered in Mogadishu. The police investigation that followed stoked dangerous tensions within the Somali nationalist movement, but it also exposed the weakness of the colonial state. On April 16 1957, at around 12:45pm, Kamal Al Din Salah…

The serf emancipation movement in the western lowlands of Italian Eritrea fostered a new political consciousness in the colony that would eventually contribute to Eritrea’s liberation and transform the Horn of Africa Following World War II, the Four Power Commission (FPC), consisting of Great…