Matt Swagler

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.

May 3, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Sheila Collins |Matt Swagler |Peter Cole

I was fairly conversant with the history of the US Civil Rights Movement when I decided to write Ubuntu: George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents as a post-retirement project.

Apr 25, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Sarah Miles |Matt Swagler |Amber Bal

Director Robert Guédiguian’s most recent film Dancing the Twist in Bamako (co-written with Gilles Taurand) is a blend of style and seriousness that captures the “zeitgeist” of the newly independent 1960s socialist Republic of Mali. The film centers on Samba Touré, the son of a wealthy cloth merchant and the protégé of the Minister of Youth, as well as an ardent socialist himself.