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Nearly 50 years after Spain gave up its Saharan colony, tens of thousands of Sahrawis are still living in refugee camps in the Algerian desert, waiting on a vote that was promised and never held. Western Sahara sits on the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa, and it remains one of the longest-running unresolved territorial disputes…

When Ghana declared independence in 1957 it kicked off a wave of decolonisation across the continent, and by 1975 every country in West Africa had wrested sovereignty from its former colonial rulers. The new leaders sought to reimagine what their fledgling nations might look like, not just socially and politically but also in terms of…