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 ...

As Nigeria celebrates its 63rd Independence anniversary, Pulse presents six key figures who paved the way for the feat in 1960. The colonisation of Nigeria by the British Empire officially started in ...

Congolese independence hero Patrice Emery Lumumba shot to fame on June 30, 1960 with a blistering independence speech against former colonial power Belgium, but ended up being executed by opponents ...

“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 ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then helped Patrice Lumumba’s electoral campaign in the Belgian Congo, before ...