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Tag: Colonial history

Market events in Zaranda, Nigeria 1958: local population and colonial officials in exchange

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9 November 2020

New lessons from the “cradle of development cooperation”

When the UK colonies became independent, many British civil servants stayed on in their respective countries as advisers. Development economist Valentin Seidler has created a unique collection of data on the colonial officials of the time. He intends to identify the qualities and skills that make someone a good development aid worker. Continue reading “New lessons from the “cradle of development cooperation””

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31 December 2018

The colonial echo of the First World War

In the context of a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, sound recordings of African prisoners of war made during the First World War were for the first time taken out of the archives and investigated. Neglected to date, these sources provide valuable audio testimony of the Great War, colonial policy of the […] Continue reading “The colonial echo of the First World War”

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