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Signs of urban decay are far more common in East than in West Germany: derelict storage building in Leipzig in late 2022.

Identity politics

Why many East Germans think they are only second-class citizens

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by Hans Dembowski
Powerful military celebrating of the “Defence Day” in Lahore in September 2024.

South Asia

In Pakistan, authoritarian attitudes are a colonial legacy

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by Muhammad Nawfal Saleemi
Storm Clouds over the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata.

Our view

History did not end

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
In 1860, a joint force of French and British troops demolished the Summer Palace in Beijing.

Illicit drugs

How opium became a pillar of the British Empire

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by Hans Dembowski
Slave trade monument in Zanzibar.

Slavery

The forgotten Arab slave trade

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by Bob Koigi
Supreme Court building in Islamabad.

Constitutional law

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has been defanged

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by Imran Mukhtar
A market in Zanzibar at the beginning of the 20th century.

Fiction

A story is always part of the currents of its time

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by Dagmar Wolf
Stranded trucks: in response to Niger’s coup, ECOWAS membes shut borders in 2023.

Regional integration

What ECOWAS can learn from the EU integration process

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by Eric Tevoedjre
Advice mattered in pre-colonial times: 19th century Bambara king in consultation with elders.

Governance

In West Africa, authoritarian attitudes go back to colonial rule

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by Baba G. Jallow
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