Africa’s contested past

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🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Historians Tom Young and Emma Dabiri explore how Africa’s past has affected its present in a discussion prompted by the themes of Tom’s new book, Neither Devil Nor Child: How Western Attitudes Are Harming Africa Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:59.0	The... The way in which the colonial boundaries were drawn by the old colonial powers meant that what you had on independence was some 40 spaces in which there were almost without exception, a huge divergence of cultures.
2:03.7	And people in those days, 1950s and 1960s, both within Africa and outside,
2:08.7	were much more optimistic about how quickly you could change this.
2:12.3	That was Tom Young on the legacy of the colonial division of Africa.
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