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African History : The History we aren't being taught | UCL African Studies Research Centre
African History : The History we aren't being taught | UCL African Studies Research Centre Kwabena Ofori Osei 50 Views • 1 year ago

Kevin C. MacDonald is Professor of African Archaeology at the UCL African Studies Research Centre (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/african-studies) where he has taught since completing his PhD at Cambridge in 1994. He has worked in Mali for more than twenty years on field projects ranging from the Late Stone Age to the historic era, principally in the Gourma, Méma, Haute Vallée and Segou regions. His analytical specialities include archaeozoology, ceramics lithics and the excavation of earthen structures. He is currently co-editor of the Routledge journal Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa.

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Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa  Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Nazi Movements
Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Nazi Movements Kwabena Ofori Osei 106 Views • 1 year ago

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Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in a wealthy family under the country's racist apartheid laws. Musk's family history reveals ties to apartheid and neo-Nazi politics. We speak with Chris McGreal, reporter for The Guardian, to understand how Musk's upbringing shaped his worldview, as well as that of his South African-raised colleague Peter Thiel, a right-wing billionaire who co-founded PayPal alongside Musk. "Musk lived what can only be described as a neocolonial life," said McGreal. "If you were a white South African in that period and you had any money at all, you lived with servants at your beck and call."

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