Somaliland itself was created during the 19th century, when the Horn of Africa was carved up by European powers. Contemporary Somalia is a composite state—formed in 1960 when two former colonial territories, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland, were fused together. ..…
Throughout the 1980s, US president Ronald Reagan was a strong supporter of South Africa’s apartheid dominion, as too was British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. ..…
Cole’s linking of Durban in South Africa and San Francisco in California, half way around the world, feels forced. After all, South Africa was a British colony until 1994. Durban dockers were all black; San Francisco dockworkers were, until the mid-1930s, all white. . ..…
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