Showing posts with label South African history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South African history. Show all posts
Thursday, December 11, 2025

How the British Empire was replaced by the British Commonwealth

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“We refer to the group of self-governing communities composed of Great Britain and the Dominions. Their position and mutual relation may be ...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

A review of “Protestant Christianity” (audiobook)

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In 1517,  Martin Luther  wrote the “Ninety-Five Theses,” a written attack on the  Catholic Church . Luther may or may not have pinned this ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Why are certain European languages so often spoken in Africa? (Answer: History)

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“A Declaration introducing into international relations certain uniform rules with reference to future occupations on the coast of the Afric...
Monday, July 18, 2022

A review of PBS’s “The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela”

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“No one in my family had ever attended school ... On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. Thi...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

A review of Robert McCrum’s “The Story of English” (book)

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In 1986, there were two versions of “The Story of English” – a television series, and a book. I never got to see much of the television seri...
Monday, October 11, 2021

A review of “The Boer War”

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Warning: This blog post contains some disturbing pictures. One of these, in particular, is very graphic, and may merit special caution. The ...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Forgotten battlegrounds of the Cold War: Angola

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The United States actually considered intervening in an African country called “Angola” … During the  Cold War , the United States actu...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

A review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s “Africa's Great Civilizations” (PBS)

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“The High Contracting Parties do by the present Charter establish an Organization to be known as the ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY . The O...
Friday, May 24, 2019

A review of “Queen Victoria's Empire” (PBS Empires)

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“ ♪ Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves. And Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. ♪ ” – “Rule, Britannia!” (1740) , a B...