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New Perspectives on Decolonisation, the Cold War, and Asian-African Connections

Collaborative Research Workshop on the History of the New World Information and Communications…

Collaborative Research Workshop on the History of the New World Information and Communications…

Collaboration in the field of history is still an underutilized approach to conducting research and creating scholarship. Nevertheless…
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Alan Maričić
Oct 19, 2023
An Interview with Naoko Shimazu, Professor of History

An Interview with Naoko Shimazu, Professor of History

This week, we feature a wonderful interview conducted by Dr. Swapna Kona Nayudu with her colleague Professor Naoko Shimazu at Yale-NUS…
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Su Lin Lewis
Jun 7, 2023
How North Korean Ideology Inspired African Development

How North Korean Ideology Inspired African Development

Afro-Asian solidarity took on many shapes and forms in the twentieth century. One overlooked aspect of this shared history is the…
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Tycho van der Hoog
Jan 27, 2023
Book Review: Clarence Adams: An American Dream - The Life of an African American Soldier and POW…

Book Review: Clarence Adams: An American Dream - The Life of an African American Soldier and POW…

Adams, Clarence, Adams, Della & Carlson, Lewis H. (eds.), Clarence Adams: An American Dream — The Life of an African American Soldier and…
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Agnes Khoo
Feb 20, 2022
Afro-Southeast Asia: Macapagal’s trip to Africa

Afro-Southeast Asia: Macapagal’s trip to Africa

The years of 1963 and 1964 are exceptional moments in the diplomatic history of Southeast Asia and Africa and in the prospect of lived…
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Carlos Quijon, Jr.
Aug 26, 2021
Losing lived Afro-Asianism: Kenneth Kaunda and Rambhai Patel

Losing lived Afro-Asianism: Kenneth Kaunda and Rambhai Patel

Yesterday, on 17 June 2021, the world lost Kenneth Kaunda. In 1964, he became Zambia’s first president. He is remembered today as a key…
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Carolien Stolte
Jun 18, 2021
Afro-Asianism on Tour? The Travels of Olabisi Ajala

Afro-Asianism on Tour? The Travels of Olabisi Ajala

On a quiet morning in 1959, the Nigerian traveller Olabisi Ajala and his customised scooter crashed through the barrier of Jerusalem’s…
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Alex White
May 24, 2021
Calvin Chao and the Africa Inland Church

Calvin Chao and the Africa Inland Church

On Sunday 18th April 1965 two unfamiliar faces could be seen at the pulpit of an Africa Inland Church (AIC) service in Nairobi. Zhao…
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B. Ashbridge
Mar 30, 2021
The Ledo Road: African-American Soldiers and Nurses in WW2 Burma

The Ledo Road: African-American Soldiers and Nurses in WW2 Burma

In the run-up to U.S. Black History Month we feature a post by Geraldine Seay (Phd), author of Call and Response: the Literature of Jim…
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Su Lin Lewis
Jan 19, 2021
Gandhians on the Road

Gandhians on the Road

In 1962, an unlikely trio of pacifists temporarily moved to East Africa, supported and facilitated by Julius Nyerere. They were: Bayard…
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Carolien Stolte
Oct 22, 2020
Matsumoto Jiichiro (1885–1966), “Subaltern Internationalist”

Matsumoto Jiichiro (1885–1966), “Subaltern Internationalist”

This month we feature a special contribution from Professor Ian Neary, an Emeritus Fellow of the Nissan Institute and St. Antony’s College…
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Su Lin Lewis
Apr 17, 2020
Ideas of India, Asia and Africa

Ideas of India, Asia and Africa

In 2016, the Leslie James wrote a piece on this blog discussing visual mapping as a tool for the history of ideas. James discussed two…
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Swapna Kona Nayudu
Mar 9, 2020
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