Congo’s dictator Joseph Mobutu with the UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld.
By the end of the 19th century, Africans and peoples of African descent—except Ethiopians, Haitians, and Liberians—were living under some form of European colonial domination. But over the course of the last 100 years black people around the world launched epic struggles for freedom, civil rights, and independence. As a result European colonial regimes have collapsed, independent African and Caribbean nations have emerged, racial segregation in the U.S. has been overthrown, and apartheid in South Africa is a thing of the past.
The online exhibition Africana Age, created by the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute, features photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals to retraces this turbulent history of challenges, tragedies, and triumphs.
Amilcar Cabral (1924–1973), an agronomist and Marxist nationalist, led the fight against Portuguese colonial rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
The website also brings together multimedia and maps to illustrate this splendid and painful story. The vast archive of images is divided into historical topics, such a colonization of Africa, Pan-Africanism, Resistence to Colonial Rule, Civil Rights Movement and Decolonization of Africa.
Read about Africa in HCS-Manguinhos:
Santos, Roberta de Freitas and Cerqueira, Mateus Rodrigues. South-South Cooperation: Brazilian experiences in South America and Africa. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1, p.23-47. ISSN 0104-5970
Ortega Martos, Antonio Miguel. ¿Colonialismo biomédico o autonomía de lo local? Sanadores tradicionales contra la tuberculosis. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2010, vol.17, no.4, p.909-924. ISSN 0104-5970
Chaple, Enrique Beldarraín. La salud pública en Cuba y su experiencia internacional (1959-2005). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2006, vol.13, no.3, p.709-716. ISSN 0104-5970
