Most efforts in Africa to date have been financially supported and driven from outside the continent.
Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.
A number of programmes now exist that are helping to close the gender gap in African science, technology, engineering and maths.
Images of white Namibian farmers and their workers and a collection of portraits by travelling black photographers form part of the early archive.
The writer Dambudzo Marechera, who died on 18 August 1987, remains a popular figure in Zimbabwe. Hundreds of handwritten letters found in an archive have revealed...
