Africa & the World
Trace trade, exchange, diaspora, colonisation, resistance, independence and global influence.
African Trade Routes
Follow the caravan, river, coastal and ocean routes that connected African societies to one another and to the wider world for thousands of years.
Pan-Africanism
The global movement that connected African and diaspora struggles for dignity, liberation, unity and political power.
Independence Movements
How workers, women, veterans, intellectuals, rural communities and liberation movements dismantled colonial rule across Africa.
African Resistance
A continent-wide history of military, spiritual, diplomatic, labour and cultural resistance to conquest and colonial rule.
European Colonisation
How European conquest partitioned Africa, how colonial states extracted labour and land, and how Africans resisted and remade political life.
Indian Ocean Slavery
An evidence-led history of enslavement across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, centred on African lives, resistance and regional differences.
Transatlantic Slavery
A complete, African-centred history of the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved people, its human cost, resistance, revolutions, abolition and enduring global legacy.
The African Diaspora
A global history of African movement, survival, identity and world-changing creativity across the continent and its diasporas.
Africa and Asia
From Indian Ocean monsoons to Bandung and modern investment, Africa and Asia share a deep history of exchange and political solidarity.
Africa and the Middle East
A long history of Nile, Red Sea, religious, commercial and political connections between African societies and the Middle East.
Africa and the Mediterranean
Explore Africa’s central place in Mediterranean history, from ancient Egypt and Carthage to scholarship, trade, empire and migration.
Africa in the Modern World
A clear-eyed account of Africa’s demographic, political, economic, technological and cultural power in the twenty first century.