Afro-Asian Visions

The years of 1963 and 1964 are exceptional moments in the diplomatic history of Southeast Asia and Africa and in the prospect of lived…

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…

On a quiet morning in 1959, the Nigerian traveller Olabisi Ajala and his customised scooter crashed through the barrier of Jerusalem’s…

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…

In 1962, an unlikely trio of pacifists temporarily moved to East Africa, supported and facilitated by Julius Nyerere. They were: Bayard…

This month we feature a special contribution from Professor Ian Neary, an Emeritus Fellow of the Nissan Institute and St. Antony’s College…

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…

Four years ago, Carolien Stolte wrote in this blog on the way in which Bandung shaped a new orientation towards regionalism via the career…

The proclamation of the Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945, and the sudden evaporation of press controls that came with it…

On New Year’s Day in 1958, delegates at the first Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Conference held their closing sessions in Cairo, after a…

During the Cold War, well before the emergence of post-colonial scholarship in the Anglo-American academy in the 1990s, much of the work…

For oppositional politicians, intellectuals, writers and artists, travel and communication in postcolonial Asia were enterprises fraught…

The establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 was met with fanfare throughout the world, signaling China’s ‘rebirth’…

Around 73, 290 West Africans and 46,050 East Africans fought in Asia during World War Two; but Africans did more than serve in combat…

Tan Malaka was a man of many talents. In the course of a fairly brief lifetime, lasting only a little over fifty years (1897–1949), he was…