• 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."

• Saarah Jappie

• Sarah Emily Duff

One of the most striking features of Botswana's capital city, is its malls.

• Harry Stopes

When a member of the UK's House of Lords (a few months before she died) told another Lord, over tea, that she'd organized Lumumba's abduction and murder.

• Nicholas Barber

Players in the board game, "Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa," are cast in the role of colonists, competing to make the largest imprint on Africa's "vast wilderness."

• Jogchum Vrielink

Tintin is full of offensive, racist, stereotypes. Should Africans take the publishers to court? No, argues the author; it is counterproductive.

• Mikko Kapanen

• Marissa Moorman

How the economic crisis in Portugal has sent the Portuguese to the shores of former colonies in search of employment.