On Radio 4’s In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg and his guests, Richard Drayton (Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at KCL), Richard Rathbone (Emeritus Professor of African History at SOAS) and Joanna Lewis (Assistant Professor of Imperial History at the LSE) discussed the Berlin Conference of 1884, where European imperialist powers tried to determine the future of Africa. You can listen to the show here on the BBC website.
Category: History
Alms Dealers: Can you provide humanitarian aid without facilitating conflicts?
In this 2010 New Yorker article, Philip Gourevitch revists the Biafran war to interrogate the tricky inter-relationship between humanitarian aid, neutrality and conflict.