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Participants in a public group photograph at the EAC Children Summit on Climate Change
Participants at the first EAC Children Summit on Climate Change, Parliament, Kampala, 16 October 2026. Parliament of Uganda / APO Group.
Parliament of Uganda / APO Group
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Participants at the first EAC Children Summit on Climate Change, Parliament, Kampala, 16 October 2026

Image date: 2026-10-16.

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Kampala summit puts children’s participation on the regional climate agenda

State, authority & accountabilitySecurity, borders & Pan-Africanism
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Sandstone east tower of the Union Buildings in Pretoria, photographed in 2017.
The Union Buildings’ east tower, Pretoria, 17 November 2017. The 1956 women’s march brought its demands to this administrative seat.
Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Union Buildings – East tower

Historical record: 2017-11-17.

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Gender, inequality & social experienceJournal essay

South African women made citizenship a question of work, movement and the home

State, authority & accountabilityDevelopment, labour & the African cityHistory, culture & knowledge
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Speaker Jacob Marksons Oboth in ceremonial robes among colleagues after a sitting of Uganda’s Parliament.
Speaker Jacob Marksons Oboth leaves Uganda’s Parliament after the plenary sitting on 14 October 2026. Photo: Parliament of Uganda / APO Group.
Parliament of the Republic of Uganda / APO Group; individual photographer not named
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Speaker leaves Uganda Parliament after the 14 October 2026 sitting

Image date: 2026-10-14.

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Uganda’s Parliament seeks a charcoal-enforcement pause and answers on energy alternatives

Development, labour & the African cityGender, inequality & social experience
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White-gloved hands use a soft brush to clean an Arabic manuscript page on a conservation work surface.
A manuscript is cleaned at SAVAMA-DCI in Bamako, 8 August 2019. Mark Fischer, “Timbuktu Manuscript”, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mark Fischer
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Timbuktu Manuscript

Historical record: 2019-08-08.

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History, culture & knowledgeJournal essay

Timbuktu’s manuscripts: knowledge, social obligations and the work of custodians

Gender, inequality & social experience
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An aged manuscript page containing Arabic text divided into numbered sections.
First page of Tunisia’s 1861 constitution. Arabic manuscript; National Archives of Tunisia, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Beylical administration of Tunis / National Archives of Tunisia · Public domain
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First page of the Tunisian Constitution of 1861

Historical record: 1861 (document; digitisation date unspecified).

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State, authority & accountabilityJournal essay

Tunisia’s 1861 constitution: who could hold power to account?

History, culture & knowledgeGender, inequality & social experience
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A conference participant holding a microphone at the Language Diversity Conference in Accra
A participant speaks on the opening day of the Language Diversity Conference in Accra, Ghana, 2 October 2026.
Justice Okai-Allotey · CC BY-SA 4.0
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LDC Day One 105.jpg

Image date: 2026-10-02.

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After Accra’s language conference, African communities put knowledge control on the agenda

State, authority & accountabilityGender, inequality & social experience
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An early twentieth-century Senegalese postcard showing a man holding a drum
An early 20th-century Senegalese postcard captioned 'Griot Diola' by photographer François-Edmond Fortier. Historical image; its colonial caption is an attribution by the postcard publisher, not independent confirmation of the sitter's identity.
François-Edmond Fortier (1862–1928) · Public domain
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Sénégal-Griot Diola (AOF).jpg

Historical record: Early 20th century; precise capture date not supplied.

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History, culture & knowledgeJournal essay

Who decides how African knowledge enters the digital world?

State, authority & accountabilityGender, inequality & social experience
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Two handwritten pages of Hendrik Witbooi’s letter journal, with folio numbers 118 and 119
Pages 118–119 of Hendrik Witbooi's Letter Journal No. 1, dated 20 May 1891. Historic manuscript, reproduced from the Digital Namibian Archive via Wikimedia Commons.
Hendrik Witbooi (1830–1905) · Public domain
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Historical record: 1891-05-20.

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State, authority & accountabilityJournal essay

Land, custom and the postcolonial state: Namibia’s divided authority

Development, labour & the African cityGender, inequality & social experience
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