Recent debates on global and world history have largely been shaped in the Euro-American academy, an arrangement that appears to deepen the growing divide between metropolitan and African universities. This article takes a more optimistic view arguing that twenty years of post-apartheid life has enabled a freer flow of people and ideas across the continent. These n...

During the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), the British transported Boer prisoners of war to St Helena, Ceylon, India and Bermuda. This article examines the 9000 POWs who were sent to India. Rather than considering them only within the historiography of the South African War (where as failed soldiers they occupy a marginal position), the article places these POWs in the...