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New Perspectives on Decolonisation, the Cold War, and Asian-African Connections
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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…
Tycho van der Hoog
Jan 27
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Swapna Kona Nayudu
Mar 9, 2020
Afro-Asianism in Indonesian Academy
Afro-Asianism in Indonesian Academy
Four years ago, Carolien Stolte wrote in this blog on the way in which Bandung shaped a new orientation towards regionalism via the career…
Wildan Sena Utama
Feb 10, 2020
Indonesian Communism and Global Networks of Translation: The Case of L.
Indonesian Communism and Global Networks of Translation: The Case of L.
The proclamation of the Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945, and the sudden evaporation of press controls that came with it…
Oliver Crawford
Jan 9, 2020
Afro-Asian Solidarity before AAPSO: The African Association in Cairo
Afro-Asian Solidarity before AAPSO: The African Association in Cairo
On New Year’s Day in 1958, delegates at the first Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Conference held their closing sessions in Cairo, after a…
Reem Abou-El-Fadl
Dec 9, 2019
The Lotus Prize for Afro-Asian Literature (1969–1988)
The Lotus Prize for Afro-Asian Literature (1969–1988)
During the Cold War, well before the emergence of post-colonial scholarship in the Anglo-American academy in the 1990s, much of the work…
Rossen Djagalov
Nov 6, 2019
Jayaprakash Narayan and Postcolonial Placemaking
Jayaprakash Narayan and Postcolonial Placemaking
For oppositional politicians, intellectuals, writers and artists, travel and communication in postcolonial Asia were enterprises fraught…
Tom Shillam
Sep 29, 2019
Being an ‘Asian Woman’: The Fulian, the AIWC, and Hannah Sen
Being an ‘Asian Woman’: The Fulian, the AIWC, and Hannah Sen
The establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 was met with fanfare throughout the world, signaling China’s ‘rebirth’…
Yasser Nasser
Aug 26, 2019
Africans in World War Two Asia: Encounters Across Continents.
Africans in World War Two Asia: Encounters Across Continents.
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…
Oliver Coates
Jun 17, 2019
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