The postcolonial history of Africa has shown that liberation parties harvest a potent crop of "struggle" legitimacy that generally neutralizes opposition for a generation or so.
In the first two weeks of April, UNESCO should start a series of debates and discussions to release, at regional level, the UNESCO General History of Africa Collection.
For 2012, work has commenced on the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Curricula from the Communication and Information Sector and the General History of Africa Curricula from the Culture Sector.
The work tells the history of Africa from the African view, using a multidisciplinary approach that engages experts from fields like history, anthropology, archeology, linguistic, botanic, physics, and journalism, among others.
The series initiates with the discussions developed in the occasions of the launching events of the UNESCO General History of Africa Collection in Portuguese, carried through the first semester of 2011.
The General History of Africa Collection, delivered to Unilab, is comprised by almost 10 thousand pages, elaborated by 350 researchers in 30 years, coordinated by a scientific committee composed by 39 experts, two thirds of them Africans.
His lecture UNESCO in Brazil: the project of 1950 and the General History of Africa Collection , took place during the launching ceremony of UNESCO General History of Africa Collection in Portuguese, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on 13 April, 2011.
The subsequent history of South Africa would have been different, but not all that much.
The country has a history of migration from North Africa going back to the early 20th century.
Referring to the pedagogical use of the General History for Africa with the Director-General, Dr. Dlamini-Zuma underlined the need to better highlight the role of women in the history of the continent.
South Africa's history of violence "is part and parcel of daily life, " he said.
South Africa's history of violence "is part and parcel of daily life, " said Johan Burger, a senior researcher with the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria.
The history of an era in which South Africa came of age and grew in stature will stir up events of the past thirty years ago, that influence our destiny.
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Lesotho - a tiny mountainous kingdom surrounded by South Africa - has a history of coups and political unrest.
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South Africa has a long history of syngas production (since the apartheid days), and has pilot facilities that have been operating for some years.
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This month, in Nature Genetics, Lluis Quintana-Murci, of the University of Pavia, in Italy, and his colleagues propose a new version of the history of the most important of these migrations the movement of people out of Africa.
He studied in Capetown, South Africa, focusing on the history of its sacred spaces.
And it dislikes lectures from Westerners whose own history in Africa lays them open to charges of hypocrisy.
Such statements are particularly sensitive because of South Africa's apartheid history and there have been concerns that some would act on Mr Malema's statements.
The origin of this belief in Africa is not clear, but researchers have linked it to Africa's colonial history where white skin was the epitome of beauty.
But given the history of apartheid-era raids into Lesotho, South Africa could have tried harder to make its intervention look multilateral.
Most of South Africa's modern economic history springs from its underground resources.
Mr Goldin and his co-authors offer a history of migration, from man's earliest wanderings in Africa to the present day.
For the first time in history, Latin America and Africa provide more than half of the population of Catholics in the world today.
The prototype is South Africa, a prosperous country with a long history of controlled wildlife management and 90 percent of its elephants living in a single national park.
As then prime minister Yitzhak Shamir said, the Ethiopian aliyah marked the first time in history where Africans were liberated from slavery by being taken out of Africa.
Malema's controversial road to fame includes his calls to seize white-owned farms in South Africa, especially incendiary in a nation with a history of racial tensions.
It suggests, whether intended or not, a kind of level of underdevelopment and ignores the fact that Africa exists in modern history.
"If you go back to 2002, and look at the recent history of rotation ... it's been Asia, Europe, Africa and with 2014 going to South America, " CONCACAF general secretary Chuck Blazer told The Associated Press.
South Africa remains an extraordinary country with huge mineral reserves, a history of proving the sceptics wrong, plenty of achievements to boast of, and the potential to transform itself.
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