The year 1960 is known as the “Year of Africa” because of a number of events that occurred then most notably the independence of seventeen African states. Between January and December of 1960, 17 ...

The year 1960 was to be crucial for Africa: 17 sub-Saharan countries became independent from their European colonisers, 14 of them from France. Harold Macmillan delivers his Wind of Change speech ...

THERE’S been too much glib talk in Africa since we all had our independence. Nonsense about oneparty states that Western liberals too often bought, about pseudo-Marxist plans of industrialization that ...

“Not all realisms: Photography, Africa, and the Long 1960s,” on view at the Smart Museum of Art, examines the mobilization of photography amid the shifting cultural and political dynamics that ...