Ismay Milford

Nov 26, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Ismay Milford

An author cannot know the events that their book will be read alongside. In October 2023, when I was three chapters into Spear and Landau had compellingly set out the conditions in which ANC “took up the spear” after half a century of pursuing nonviolent methods, Hamas carried out violent attacks in Israel. I was not necessarily preoccupied with historical parallels or lessons from the past.

Jul 10, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Frank Gerits |Ismay Milford |Sarah Miles |Matt Swagler

On the night of March 6, 1957, as Kwame Nkrumah was wiping away tears, he declared the former British colony of the Gold Coast, renamed Ghana, independent.