What Portugal forgets
In the film 'Tales of Oblivion,' Dulce Fernandes excavates the buried history of slavery in Portugal, challenging a national mythology built on sea voyages, silence, and selective memory.
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Quando Portugal esquece
Em 'Contos do Esquecimento,' Dulce Fernandes desenterrou histórias esquecidas da escravidão em Portugal, desafiando uma mitologia nacional construída sobre viagens marítimas, silêncio e memória seletiva.
The forgotten women of slave revolts
Rebecca Hall’s "Wake" uncovers the hidden history of African women warriors and their role in resisting the transatlantic slave trade.
When Brazil’s African Muslims scared the world
Taking place 190 years ago, the Malê Revolt in Bahia, led by African Muslim slaves, shook Brazil's foundations and echoed global fears of a new Haiti.
Rememorando os 190 anos da Revolta dos Malês no Brasil
Há 190 anos, a Revolta dos Malês na Bahia, liderada por escravizados africanos muçulmanos, abalou as bases do Brasil e ecoou temores globais de um possível novo Haiti.
The pitfalls of return
While many diasporans speculate romantically about the people we were or could have been, is that speculation mutual?
Weaving the unthought
The little-known history of Iranian cinema uncovers its overlooked history of slavery and anti-blackness.
With what are you apologizing?
If slavery is the material and metaphysical womb of the modern world, reparations will require nothing less than the end of this world.
Shifting the guilt
Even though Israeli novelist Agur Schiff’s latest book is meant to be a satirical reflection on the legacy of slavery and stereotypes about Africa, it ends up reinforcing them.
A slow emancipation
What peanut trading in late 19th century Senegal tells us about the fine line between slavery and freedom.
Saved by memory
A new Brazilian film shows the role memory plays in African spirituality and dreams of liberation.
A crop that changed the world
The story about peanuts, and the people who grew it at the margins of an empire in 19th century West Africa, then the most abundant source of the world’s most important oilseed.
If you want to get the West’s attention, talk about the Holocaust
The intimate connection between the horror unleashed on Europe's Jews and the preceding centuries of atrocities perpetrated by the "Enlightened" West on those they colonized and enslaved.
The fight against descent-based slavery in Mali
Slavery existed in the Sahel before the Transatlantic Slave Trade and endured beyond its abolitions. To this day.
Law and disorder
France’s history of violence policing left a legacy of law and disorder, targeting dissidents, in its former colonies.
Tales of a civilized slavery
Black Brazilians have to fight official and popular narratives hiding the country's brutal and violent legacy of slavery.
The ‘abnormality’ of Cape Town’s traditional carnival
Breaking with the usual media conversation about the carnival that recalls Cape Town’s slave past.
The confrontation with France’s slave past
A visit to a museum in a French port city, brings up questions about how slavery is remembered.
The slave holders on the border
Why do people on the border between Nigeria and northern Cameroon refer to Boko Haram as slave holders?
The creation of black criminality in South Africa
There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.