Time

BRITISH AFRICA: The First of the Last

The setting came right out of the great days of the British Empire. In the gilded splendor of Lancaster House, only a few hundred yards from Buckingham Palace, sat Moslems in silk turbans, Arabs in ...
The Armchair Historian on MSN

British colonization of Africa

The British colonization of Africa reshaped an entire continent - politically, economically, and culturally. In this video, I explore how and why Britain expanded its empire into Africa, the impact on ...
The American Conservative

Yet Another British History of Africa

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... An African History of Africa, by Zeinab Badawi. Mariner Books, 532 pages. While the text does an adequate job of surveying a vast topic, it ...
The Atlantic

British South Africa

As INTERNATIONAL tension mounts over South Africa’s policy of apartheid, a series of events have, focused attention on the three little-known territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland.
The New York Times

In Africa, the queen’s death renews a debate about the legacy of the British Empire.

While some in Africa paid tribute to the deceased monarch, others stressed Britain’s violent colonial history on the continent. By Abdi Latif Dahir Lynsey Chutel and Elian Peltier NAIROBI, Kenya — ...
The Atlantic

British East Africa

TAKE a piece of ancient land sparsely inhabited by pastoral and nomadic tribes, mix into it a variety of white men of various intent, let it simmer for fifty years, and serve it hot in 1953. The ...