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Training of young Rwandan Hutu on the road to Kigali, 27 June 1994
20th Century

Genocide: what can we learn from history?

Ras Prince Monolulu entertains the crowds at Aintree racecourse, 1931 (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
20th Century

Ras Prince Monolulu: the horse-race tipster who transformed himself into an Abyssinian prince

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20th Century

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Winston Churchill (left) with Charles de Gaulle, c1944. The British prime minister encouraged Vichy’s colonies to rally to the Free French leader. (Getty Images)
Second World War

Operation Ironclad: the WW2 battle for Madagascar

Susan Williams discusses the United States’ covert programme to undermine the leaders of newly independent African nations in the 1950s and 1960s. (Image by Getty Images)
20th Century

The CIA’s secret African missions

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Victorian

The forgotten battles of the Zulu War

Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia
20th Century

Haile Selassie, last emperor of Ethiopia and architect of modern Africa

Saul Dubow responds to listener questions on Victorian Britain’s bitter conflict with two southern African republics. (Image by Getty Images)
Victorian

The Boer War: everything you wanted to know

Illustration of the French colonial army departing to fight under Colonel Marchand
Victorian

What if... Britain and France went to war during the 1898 Fashoda Incident?

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Tourists at the Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Giza in 1923
Ancient Egypt

Who was ancient Egypt’s most successful pharaoh?

Neil Faulkner reveals how the Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 helped give rise to the first modern jihad
20th Century

Jihad and the British empire

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

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20th Century

How to win a 20th-century battle

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Medieval

Ibn Battuta: the most famous traveller of the medieval Arab world

Nikita Khrushchev visits President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1964
20th Century

Snuffed out democracies and poisoned toothpaste: how the Cold War wreaked havoc in post-colonial Africa

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