IN southern Africa, townships were built as segregated urban zones for black people. They were created under colonial and white minority rule policies that controlled movement, confined opportunity, and kept people apart. I grew up in a different historic black township in Zimbabwe, but Mbare was the first of its kind. It holds a unique…
In southern Africa townships were built as segregated urban zones for black people. They were created under colonial and white minority rule policies that controlled movement, confined opportunity, and kept people apart. I grew up in a different historic black township in Zimbabwe, but Mbare was the first of its kind. It holds a unique…
By Isaac Arkoh Cape Coast, May 30, GNA – A delegation of African Americans from the Teaching Arts Institute (TAI), Bolton, USA, and their counterparts from the Department of Music and Dance at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), have appealed to government to rename colonial castles across Ghana as “Slave Dungeons.” The 27-member delegation…
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In southern Africa townships were built as segregated urban zones for black people. They were created under colonial and white minority rule policies that controlled movement, confined opportunity, and kept people apart. I grew up in a different historic black township in Zimbabwe, but Mbare was the first of its kind. It holds a unique…