Amid global geopolitical shifts, Russia is strengthening ties with African countries, and education is becoming the foundation of long-term partnership. How is the Russian school of engineering helping African states make the transition from a raw-materials model to technological sovereignty? And why has MISIS University’s century-long experience of integration with industry become for African colleagues […]

From slavery to neocolonialism, via the slave trade and colonialism, mercantilist Europe built its wealth by plundering Africa and reifying its people. The Code Noir of 1685 embodied the legal reification of human beings. Its formal abrogation did not stem from any moral awakening among the colonial elites. Official French history celebrates this abrogation as […]