Captain Fred Paulsen eagerly heads to the sultanate of Oman, a home of the Arab dow-traders, whose sail ships essentially remain since the fourth century. Guest Thomas Müller and his wife hoped a ...

Fabian Krautwald joined UCL in 2024. He works and teaches on the social, political, cultural, economic, and intellectual history of Africa from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.

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Digitalization. The two-day AFRICOMICS workshop in Windhoek, Namibia put a special focus on digital illustration. The workshop with 21 participants, which took place at the Goethe-Institut in Windhoek ...

Its biggest World War II ship was named after a joke the president made. It repaired an ally’s aircraft carrier in secret, while the enemy publically claimed it sunk. It transformed a sabotaged enemy ...

Since the 1990s there has been a virtual academic consensus that a genocide was perpetuated by Germany during the Herero and Nama War. But the question of responsibility and continuity are still being ...

Michael Opitz was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where his father at the time was the general surgeon to the royal family. His family subsequently moved to Namibia, and Michael grew up in Ovamboland ...

There is a lot to take in, and I haven't had a whole lot of time to explore during regular business hours, due to the nature of my work here... but if you find yourself this far south, I recommend the ...

The Natal Carbineers said to be the oldest volunteer regiment in the former British Empire and the senior regiment of the SA Army 1. The unit has fought in every conflict “logistically possible” since ...

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