• Danielle Bowler

Slavery, despite its centrality to South Africa's founding, remains on the periphery of popular and institutional memory there.

• Alice de Vries

Zwarte Piet is just more evidence of how the Dutch majority silences and denies racist realities, especially that of black people there.

• Jeroen van Strien

What if the author, a Dutch blogger, had the chance to edit an "Africa"-edition of a prominent European magazine.

• Chandra Frank

Redmond is an Amsterdam-based intersectional feminist media collective, organizes conversation about beauty ideals, whiteness, race and cultural appropriation. 

• Chandra Frank

Many believe slavery was a "black page in history." This is a false representation of history and insulting, given the legacies of slavery are so present today.

• Chandra Frank

Discovering that history lessons are best learned when you look up whilst walking through the small streets of the Netherlands' commercial capital.

• Serginho Roosblad

What has Steve Bantu Biko got to do with partying and spring in the Netherlands?

• Chandra Frank

The trouble with the official Dutch commemoration of the abolition of slavery. It leaves out the descendants of victims altogether.

• Martijn Kleppe

Why is a photo of an empathetic group of young Dutch Moroccans visiting a concentration camp being used to illustrate so many stories in which Moroccans are a "problem"?

• Serginho Roosblad

Why does black characters in Dutch TV commercial plays some exaggerated version of someone from the colonies? Can "normal" black people not sell a product? 

• Alice de Vries

The Dutch artist Ruud van Empel talks about his art, including his portrayal of black children as ideal types from middle class Dutch 1960s backgrounds.

• Chandra Frank

The politics of selling African art mostly collected during colonial era to private collectors.

• Serginho Roosblad

In Dutch politics, Africa mostly works as a tactic to embarrass and ridicule your opponent.

• Dylan Valley

Afrikaans has its roots as a Dutch Creole, spoken by slaves, slave masters and workers of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape. A South African theater company took the play to The Netherlands.

• Tom Devriendt