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The British Empire’s impact on Ireland’s Great Hunger
Drew Forrest looks at the role of Victorian laissez-faire in the terrible Irish famine
A tale of two risings: Ireland and South Africa
There are marked parallels between the two countries’ liberation wars
For Africans, the British empire was neither benign nor good
Britain consolidated its rapacious theft of territories in Africa and Asia during the reign of Elizabeth II’s great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria
Queen Elizabeth – the monarch who had to adjust from Empire to Commonwealth
The late British monarch played a low-key role in helping to keep the commonwealth together through many disputes about race
There is no Africa in African studies
The experience of studying Africa in London makes the writers question the validity of "African Studies" as is currently taught in Britain.