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Portrait Displays and Political Strategies: Negotiating Solidarity in Sino-Tanzanian Relations

Portrait Displays and Political Strategies: Negotiating Solidarity in Sino-Tanzanian Relations

In the mid-1960s, a succession of Tanzanian diplomatic and cultural delegations visited the People’s Republic of China (PRC), following the…
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Ruodi Duan
A Manifesto by the Afro-Asian Networks Research Collective in Radical History Review 131

A Manifesto by the Afro-Asian Networks Research Collective in Radical History Review 131

This week we published our ‘manifesto’ in Radical History Review’s Special Issue on the Global South. In it we discuss the need for a…
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Su Lin Lewis
Ghana’s Bandung moment: Jim Markham’s Asian sojourn, 1953–55

Ghana’s Bandung moment: Jim Markham’s Asian sojourn, 1953–55

In June 1954, the Asian Socialist Conference (ASC) published the first edition of its Anti-Colonial Bureau News Letter. After briefly…
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Gerard McCann
The Afro-Asian Grocery: Unpacking Stories of Food, Exile and Community

The Afro-Asian Grocery: Unpacking Stories of Food, Exile and Community

Located on St. Marks Road in Bristol’s Easton neighbourhood, Bristol Sweet Mart is an ‘Aladdin’s cave of food’. It first opened its doors…
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Saima Nasar
The Archipelago Reporting Global: The Afro-Asian Journalist Association, the Indonesian Left, and…

The Archipelago Reporting Global: The Afro-Asian Journalist Association, the Indonesian Left, and…

Originating from the 1955 Bandung Conference and established in Jakarta in 1963, the Afro-Asian Journalist Association (thereafter referred…
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Taomo Zhou
Switch-cities, decolonization, and globalization: Singapore, Beirut, Dakar

Switch-cities, decolonization, and globalization: Singapore, Beirut, Dakar

In the 1940s-70s, a handful of cities functioned as ‘switches’ — switch-cities, we may say — between multiple recently decolonized…
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cyrus schayegh
Afro-Asian Threads: Batik and African Print-Fashion, from Vlisco to Mandela

Afro-Asian Threads: Batik and African Print-Fashion, from Vlisco to Mandela

African print-fashion and Indonesian batik have long and connected histories. I recently visited UCLA’s Fowler Museum, which currently…
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Su Lin Lewis
The art of peace in the early Cold War

The art of peace in the early Cold War

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Rachel Leow
Digitising militant glossy magazines in francophone Africa

Digitising militant glossy magazines in francophone Africa

Awa: la revue de la femme noire was a glossy magazine produced in Dakar, Senegal by a pioneering network of women between 1964 and 1972…
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Ruth Bush
Afro-Asian links to Latin America, The Origins of the Global South at the UN

Afro-Asian links to Latin America, The Origins of the Global South at the UN

As research expands on the global origins of anti-imperialism and the historical rise of the Global South, definitions of the composition…
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Alanna O' Malley
‘Shining vistas’ and false passports: recipes for an anticolonial hub

‘Shining vistas’ and false passports: recipes for an anticolonial hub

The ‘anticolonial hub’ has, more often than not, appeared to us in the form of the colonial metropole. Indeed, for historians of interwar…
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Ismay Milford
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