This narrative dangerously revives colonial-era ideas that categorised African peoples using the discredited Hamitic hypothesis, which favored Tutsi groups as "more civilized" and closer to ...

Nilotic and Hamitic peoples. Aspirations of African nationalism were, as Rebecca Fane put it, “dangerously misleading”. Trying to discern motivations of independence era leaders, I sometimes ...

The narratives around the conflict in eastern DR Congo have been distorted by biased reporting, downplaying violence against Congolese Tutsi communities, according to conflict discourse researcher and ...

One of the most destructive ideological tools was the Hamitic versus Bantu theory, a construct that fueled perpetual ethnic conflicts across the continent. This theory ultimately contributed to ...

Egyptian is part of the family of Afroasiatic languages, which can be divided into the Semitic and Hamitic languages. Egyptian is attested from the Early Dynastic Period (about 3000 BC) to the Islamic ...