Play Pause Unmute Mute History How colonialism shaped modern Africa The pre-colonial kingdoms of Ghana The slave trade in West Africa: a journey through history The Swahili Coast: a history of trade and culture Patrice Lumumba: Belgium Orders Trial in a Long Delayed Reckoning The wounds that never fully healed: Biafra and the war that shaped a nation The Swahili Coast: where Africa met the Indian Ocean trade winds Wearing Kenya: the bracelet story The last stand of the Kingdom of Benin: art theft and royal exile Disco Matanga: inside the Giriama nightlong farewell where grief dances Silent pillars: Kenya’s obelisks Dedan Kimathi: the man who walked into the forest The million-dollar walk: the audacious heist of Charles Omondi Wabera Street: the assassination that ignited the Shifta War Wole Soyinka: Africa’s literary conscience Fort Hall, Murang’a, (1955): a crucible of colonial power and resistance Remembering Field Marshal Muthoni wa Kirima (1931–2023) Freedom fighter: the forests of resistance A closer look at the great Kingdom of Zimbabwe Starlight Club: Nairobi’s legendary nightlife of the ’70s and ’80s Ivory, power and human lives: the shadow empire of Tippu Tip Pio Gama Pinto: Kenya’s quiet revolutionary The Brazilian Barracoon: Badagry’s silent witness to the Atlantic slave trade Thomas Sankara: Africa’s revolutionary visionary Load More
