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Remembering Differently
The Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot opens his remarkable work “Silencing the Past” by pointing to the ambiguity o…
Africa’s Last Colony
Earlier this year I flew to the Algerian military town of Tindouf, as part of a Vice News crew, to help make a documenta…
Dutch Logic and the New Brown Pete: Making Something Less Racist by Making it More Racist
As most AIAC readers know by now, the Dutch are having a very hard time letting go of their precious blackface tradition…
The complicated politics of conversion in Northern Nigeria
In Boko Haram’s video released earlier this month, a member of the group (presumed to be Abubakar Shekau, the group’s le…
Heathrow Airport maps the world, and it still belongs to Britain
I was sitting in the tube recently and browsing through one of those free morning papers that no one really reads when I…
#WhiteHistoryMonth: Aimé Césaire on Europe
I’ve been reading Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism. He puts it all plainly. In the flurry of theory, tangles of c…
Know your Dutch history
Twenty years ago, Teun van Dijk published the book Elite Discourse and Racism, in which he discusses the subtle ways tha…
When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie met Sweden
Last Sunday the Göteborg International Film Festival and International Writers’ Stage Gothenburg co-hosted a conversatio…
Why are historians suddenly looking at Sweden’s colonial past?
It is, to a surprisingly large extent, a story that’s been going on since the Second World War. Sweden–it is said–is dif…