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Elmina Castle and the Year of Return
By Evan Binkley (@evanbinkley_) In 2019, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo inaugurated the Year of Return, a national tourism strategy that invited members of the African Diaspora to visit Ghana.[1] The Year of Return marked four hundred years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in the English Colony of Virginia. To commemorate this anniversary, President Akufo-Addo…
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Archives of the air: tracing the lives of East African radio broadcasters in Moscow and Beijing
By Alex White (@alex_j_white) In December 1959, the Zanzibari Rajab Saleh Salim arrived in the Soviet Union in search of work. For the 25-year-old Salim, this journey into the heart of the Cold War was only the latest example in a long line of radical and anti-colonial placemaking. Born to an African family in Zanzibar,…
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Alex White – Historian Highlight
Alex White (@alex_j_white), interviewed by Zara Kesterton Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge. We ask students how they came to research their topic, their favourite archival find, as well as the best (and worst) advice they’ve received as academics in training. History is…
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Historian Highlight – João Moreira da Silva
Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. In this instalment, Chris Campbell sat down with second-year History PhD student João Moreira da Silva to talk about his research on the Portuguese Empire and its colonial legacies. João, let’s start by talking about your PhD research. My…
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