Sixty-five years ago, in February 1960, Walter Sisulu was in an apartheid court, defending himself, the struggle for freedom, and his own principled reasons for being a part of it, as co-accused in ...

The year 1960 was to be crucial for Africa: 17 sub-Saharan countries became independent from their European colonisers, 14 of them from France. Harold Macmillan delivers his Wind of Change speech ...