
Treasure Hunt Politics
The location of 18th colonial ship ship and its expensive cargo renews tensions between Spain and Colombia revives unfinished business between Spain and its former colonies.
The location of 18th colonial ship ship and its expensive cargo renews tensions between Spain and Colombia revives unfinished business between Spain and its former colonies.
How to make sense of the Paris attacks within the international history of the 20th and 21th century, especially France's history of colonialism.
The Algerian novelist, Kamel Daoud, gives a name and a history to Albert Camus's "The Stranger."
Kenyans choose to forget that the Kenya Land and Freedom army (also known as Mau Mau) did not fight for a monument. They fought for land.
The Rhodes Must Fall movement is starting a much-needed conversation about the institutional roots of racism at universities in the West. Hopefully that conversation will lead to solutions.
Protests are important because they raise awareness. Awareness leads to dialogue. And dialogue may lead to lasting solutions.
On Otavalo, the largest outdoor indigenous market in South America.
Slavery, despite its centrality to South Africa's founding, remains on the periphery of popular and institutional memory there.
Western Sahara is the only non-self-governing territory on the African continent awaiting decolonization.
Responding to criticism of a Dutch blackface Christmas character, supporters come up with a dumb plan.
Too many people have forgotten about the one Naira coin, and the chap on that coin.
Forced conversion as a strategy exclusive is not to Islamist terrorism in northern Nigeria. Everyone's been in on the act.
I was sitting in the tube recently and browsing through one of those free morning papers that
"At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler."
It is important that the Netherlands' history of slavery gets anchored in Dutch history curriculums in the same way that the Second World War is.
Sweden is a country living under the illusion of a special kind of exceptionalism, including that it is “less affected by postcolonial relations than other nations.”
An African refugee in Britain seeks assistance. He is thrown behind bars, often shackled. He fasts in protest. He is shackled and shipped out on the next charter flight.
The image of a benevolent, preternaturally anti-racist “good old Sweden,” spreading its perfect democracy around the world, is fiction.
No, there's is not a vigorous debate on blackface and racism in the Netherlands. Instead it's the usual duplicity of Dutch liberals.
What's wrong with the 'Africa' journalism of Aidan Hartley, a staple in rightwing UK media like 'The Spectator' and 'The Daily Mail."