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How France extorted Haiti for one of the greatest heists in geopolitical history

July 4, 2020Quartz Africa

BRING BACK OUR ARTIFACTS

How to bring Africa’s artifacts back home from Europe’s museums

June 15, 2020Quartz Africa

FROM HARLEM TO ADDIS

The intertwined histories of the African American freedom struggle and Ethiopia’s war against fascism

June 14, 2020Quartz Africa

How ancient African societies used social distancing to manage pandemics

May 18, 2020Quartz Africa

The African slave who taught America how to vaccinate itself from smallpox

May 10, 2020Quartz Africa

The remarkable resurgence of Ben Enwonwu who was already Africa’s greatest contemporary artist

May 3, 2020Quartz Africa

BIRTH OF A NEW NATION

The trip to newly independent Ghana that inspired an iconic Martin Luther King sermon

March 6, 2020Quartz Africa

124 years ago, Ethiopian men and women defeated the Italian army in the Battle of Adwa

March 2, 2020Quartz Africa

Why Kenya’s pre-independence rebel fighters Mau Mau gave up their fight

Feb. 13, 2020Quartz Africa

THE GRIOT'S TALE

West Africa’s oral histories tell us a more complete story than traditional post-colonial narratives

Dec. 17, 2019Quartz Africa