• Camilo Ucrós

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.

• Frank Gerits

How to make sense of the Paris attacks within the international history of the 20th and 21th century, especially France's history of colonialism.

• Harry Stopes

The Algerian novelist, Kamel Daoud, gives a name and a history to Albert Camus's "The Stranger."

• Wangui Kimari

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.

• Olivia Walton
• William H. Smith

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.

• Tawanda Moyo

Protests are important because they raise awareness. Awareness leads to dialogue. And dialogue may lead to lasting solutions.

• Camilo Ucrós

On Otavalo, the largest outdoor indigenous market in South America.

• Danielle Bowler

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

• Oscar Rickett

Western Sahara is the only non-self-governing territory on the African continent awaiting decolonization.

• Chandra Frank

Responding to criticism of a Dutch blackface Christmas character, supporters come up with a dumb plan.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Shobana Shankar

Forced conversion as a strategy exclusive is not to Islamist terrorism in northern Nigeria. Everyone's been in on the act.

• Sinthujan Varatharajah

• Marissa Moorman

"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."

• Alice de Vries

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.

• Katarina Hedrén

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.”

• Dan Moshenberg

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.

• Johan Palme

The image of a benevolent, preternaturally anti-racist “good old Sweden,” spreading its perfect democracy around the world, is fiction.

• Chandra Frank
• Serginho Roosblad

No, there's is not a vigorous debate on blackface and racism in the Netherlands. Instead it's the usual duplicity of Dutch liberals.

• Netta Kornberg

What's wrong with the 'Africa' journalism of Aidan Hartley, a staple in rightwing UK media like 'The Spectator' and 'The Daily Mail."