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From Mbombela to the world: Bobby Shabangu has led a regional effort to draft the Africa Agenda, a document that captures the challenges faced by the Wikimedia Communities in Africa. Photo: Supplied
AFRICAN LEADERSHIP

Africa takes its seat at Wikimedia

Bobby Shabangu’s election to the Wikimedia Foundation Board marks a historic first for Africa and a decisive step toward global knowledge equity

  • Dumisani Ndubane
7 min read
Blood and freedom: A memorial in the Namibian capital Windhoek to the genocide of the Herero and Nama committed by German colonial troops from 1904 to 1907. Photo: Jürgen Bätz/Getty Images
ABDULRAZAK GURNAH

Examining colonial narratives and African representation in German literature

This is an edited extract of Henning Melber’s The Long Shadow of German Colonialism.

  • Henning Melber
4 min read