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Historian Ed Keazor reflects on what happened during the 1966 military coups in Nigeria
“The coup created a permanent rift in the Nigerian Army and within the Nigerian polity.”
Historian Ed Keazor on whether the 1951 elections in Western Nigeria introduced tribalism
“There are accounts that range from the apocryphal to the sublime, from the absolutely credible to the completely nonsensical”
Writer Mothobi Mutloatse on the South Africans lost with the SS Mendi in 1917
“They were recruited as labourers and were not supposed to carry any guns. They couldn't be trusted with guns, even to fight white men!”
Daniel Effiong on his 3 part film series of great Nigerian historic mysteries
“Your Cup of Tea is loosely based on the arrest and interrogation of the former Nigerian President Obasanjo when it was alleged he was going to overthrow Abacha”
Mark Kaplan on his doc about a forest funded by SA Jews that covers a Palestinian village
“There's so many resonances for us as South Africans who've gone through Apartheid, forced removals and other forms of social engineering”
David Forbes on his documentary The Cradock Four about activists assassinated by the Apartheid Govt
“The widows would weep and scream with grief and this was 20 years later”
Peter Williams, BRIXMIS -East German Secret Service files showed how they tried to wound or kill us
Peter Williams on how BRIXMIS went from being a liaison mission to spying on the Soviets
Peter Williams, ex BRIXMIS on being rammed by an East German 10 ton truck at a radar station
Gene Poteat on the Gulf of Tonkin incident: a non-existent attack that escalated a war
Writer Binyavanga Wainana on the historic role and reputation of Kenya’s Dedan Kimathi
Jane Lewisohn - the Flowers radio show and the renaissance of Iranian music and poetry it encouraged
Michela Wrong on why technology did not ensure a clean and fair election in Kenya
Historian Toby Green on the Transaltantic slave trade started and its impact
Historian Toby Green on how creolisation made the slave trade possible
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