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PK and “The Power of One” created a vivid picture of overcoming struggle, and of Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarship, for me. Cecil John Rhode...

Different waves of European Colonization rose from the failure of the Crusades (and the expansion of the Ottoman Empire), and the successful...

Trev: I grew up in Apartheid South Africa as it was gasping for its last breaths, and as the new South Africa was filling its lungs for th...

The borders of countries are tidal. What divides and rules us depends on the whims of the times, and the songs we happen to be singing. Cit...

Most of us didn't learn our Mother Tongue academically. We didn't learn the rules. Instead we waded through years of confusion as r...

The Congress of Berlin was held in 1878. It was there that modern Colonialism was born. The New World had gone after independence, and so ...

As the world globalised, those seeking to convert locals or make money looked homewards for legal protection. People wanted to do b...

Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country. It is bordered by five landlocked countries. The idea of Nation States wasn't built ...

Continental Colours Thirteen Star Flag The  Thirteen Colonies  which declared independence from Britain in 1776 were on the eas...

Tuvalu has a population of just over 10,000 people. It became the 189th member of the United Nations in September 2000. 4,676 peopl...

Turkmenistan was washed by several cultural waves. Indo-European languages show how our tongues are linked, even if our ears hide be...

Ethiopia was the only African country never colonised by the Europeans. It is the reason so many flags in the world bear the Ethiop...

Civil war has often followed independence from foreign conquerors. Tajikistan became an independent nation following the 1991 disso...

The Berlin Conference of 1884 regulated European colonisation and trade in Africa. New Imperialism  rose on the back of newly industrialis...

When 'Greece' fell to Rome, it wasn't an Empire but a bunch of independent city-states who did things differently. The ...

Unlike other islands which were colonised and the populations replaced, the Samoan people's ancestors reached their country abou...

The ' Black Caribs ' were a mix of native Carib people and West African slaves who escaped from Spanish shipwrecks and othe...

Saint Lucia was known as "Helen of the West Indies" because it swapped hands between French and British control so many ti...

Saint Kitts is short for Saint Christopher. Saint Kitts and Nevis is an island country in the West Indies. As one of the first Brit...

Qatar has a population of 2.6 million of which 313,000 are citizens, and the rest are expatriates. An Expatriate is someone tempora...