Tag: History
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100 years of radio in Africa: from propaganda to people’s power
Sisanda Nkoala, University of the Western Cape; Christina Chan-Meetoo, University of Mauritius; Jacinta Mwende Maweu, University of Nairobi; Marissa J. Moorman, Indiana University; Modestus Fosu, Ghana Institute of Journalism, and Stanley Tsarwe, University of Namibia for The Conversation, CC BY-ND 3.0 Radio is thriving across Africa. Exact figures are difficult to come by because audience…
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Introduction to Palestine, part 4
All of these shortcomings are often countered with the assertion that Palestinians must compromise to reach peace. Israeli control is treated as a fait accompli and that Palestinians must deal with it, rather than demand justice. This is the whole premise of the two-state solution, that Palestinians must compromise on their rights to be granted…
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Introduction to Palestine, part 3
The revisionism surrounding the 1967 war is one of Israel’s most significant propaganda achievements. Suddenly, reality is flipped on its head, and the powerful aggressor becomes an underdog fighting to stave off extermination, though no such threat really existed.
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Introduction to Palestine, part 2
The mandate and the Nakba This article was originally posted on the site Decolonize Palestine, and is being shared here per their CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 policy This is part 2 of our introduction articles. We highly recommend reading them in order. As we learned in the previous article, the fall of the Ottoman empire, the…
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Introduction to Palestine, part 1
This article does not aim to delve into the minutiae of this Palestinian history, indeed entire books could be -and have been- written on the subject. Rather the goal of this introduction is to describe the political context that lead up to the modern Palestinian question.
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Digging for Democracy: History and Archeology from Below
By Andrew Zonneveld for ROAR Mag, published on March 17th, 2022 under Creative Commons In building a directly democratic future, we must learn from examples of grassroots historical research and rediscover community approaches to archaeology. The most common complaint teachers hear from students learning history is that “it’s boring.” Asked why, these same students usually…