Events

A clear-eyed account of Africa’s demographic, political, economic, technological and cultural power in the twenty first century.

The global movement that connected African and diaspora struggles for dignity, liberation, unity and political power.

How workers, women, veterans, intellectuals, rural communities and liberation movements dismantled colonial rule across Africa.

A continent-wide history of military, spiritual, diplomatic, labour and cultural resistance to conquest and colonial rule.

How European conquest partitioned Africa, how colonial states extracted labour and land, and how Africans resisted and remade political life.

An evidence-led history of enslavement across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, centred on African lives, resistance and regional differences.

A complete, African-centred history of the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved people, its human cost, resistance, revolutions, abolition and enduring global legacy.

A global history of African movement, survival, identity and world-changing creativity across the continent and its diasporas.

From Indian Ocean monsoons to Bandung and modern investment, Africa and Asia share a deep history of exchange and political solidarity.

A long history of Nile, Red Sea, religious, commercial and political connections between African societies and the Middle East.