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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globeSprawling across a quarter of th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyusome one and a half million people. Th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies
Postcolonial states and metropolitan societies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism.Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reasons, these settler communities had in common their shaping of landholding, laws, and race relations in ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
FIELD Immersion 2022: Chattanooga, Tennessee
by Caroline Elkins • Tom QuinnIndustry and Background Note... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Agility Africa
This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying innovative solutions that provide... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Bridge International Academies in 2020: Battling Headwinds to Solve Africa's Education Problems
By 2020, Bridge International Academies and its "school in a box" model had achieved great scale. By leveraging digital technology and public-private partnerships, they had reached one million children across Africa and India through hundreds of schools. However, the organization encountered controv... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Andela: Africa's AWS for Talent
Five years after the company's founding, Andela, a company that built and trained remote engineering teams, became arguably Africa's greatest technology unicorn. By January 2019, Andela raised $100 million in Series D funding. As Andela looked to scale in an increasingly competitive landscape, its g... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities—has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which needs to be addressed as a matter of justi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
iOpenEye: Theater and #MeToo in Nigeria
In 2014, Ifeoma Fafunwa, an award-winning playwright and director, founded iOpenEye, a commercial production company dedicated to driving social change through performance art. iOpenEye's flagship theatrical production was called "Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True," which shared narratives of Nigeria... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Edita: Making Choices in Uncertain Times
After 15 years of steady growth and expansion, Edita, a leading Egyptian snack producer, faced a series of challenges in the wake of the Arab Spring. In January 2011, the Egyptian Revolution sparked political and economic turmoil that reflected the waves of protest and violence already spreading thr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Babban Gona: Great Farm
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Language: ENGCopyright: 2021