African Politics and International Relations
Posted in Africa Notes, African Politics on Apr 16th, 2012
Update: Just saw this link to a nice timeline of the conflict in northern Mali since 1891 on IRIN. (h/t Sahel Blog). Things still look rather grim in Mali, though the situation is in constant flux. It might be useful to look at the situation from different vantage points: The people of Mali It is [...]
Posted in African Politics, Noted on Apr 6th, 2009
The BBC reports that the liberation of Paris in 1944 was carefully orchestrated to be “whites only”. Apparently, this was an American idea. So when De Gaulle wanted to have a French division lead the liberation, he had to remove the West African soldiers (which reportedly formed 65% of Free French Forces) from the division [...]
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