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Darwin Comes to Africa
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John West Introduces Darwin Comes to Africa

The work explores the poisonous influence of Social Darwinism on British rule in Nigeria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read More ›
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When Darwin Came to Africa

Charles Darwin didn't spend much time in Africa. But his poisonous ideas certainly did. Read More ›
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Two Nigerian Authors and Darwin’s African Legacy

Missing from Chinua Achebe’s account is the role played by scientific racism in driving British imperialist policy in the country. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin
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The Racism of Darwin and Darwinism

Not only racism, but racial extermination was an integral feature of Darwin’s theory from the start. Read More ›
The Biology of the Second Reich
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African Genocide: The Horror of Scientific Racism

My documentary only tells one part of the story of racism, and only a part of the story of Social Darwinism's influence on Western imperialism. Read More ›
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Darwinism as the Root Problem of Modernity

Shaw and Chesterton believed that the acceptance of Darwinism made it impossible to resist social Darwinism, plutocracy, imperialism, racialism, and militarism. Read More ›
The Biology of the Second Reich
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African Genocide: The Horror of Scientific Racism

My documentary only tells one part of the story of racism, and only a part of the story of Social Darwinism's influence on Western imperialism. Read More ›
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Darwin's voyage: exploration and discovery
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What Would a World Without Darwin Look Like?

Imagine that Darwin had fallen overboard and there was no Origin of Species or anything else from his pen. Read More ›

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