Remembering Differently
Slavery, despite its centrality to South Africa's founding, remains on the periphery of popular and institutional memory there.
Slavery, despite its centrality to South Africa's founding, remains on the periphery of popular and institutional memory there.
To repeat: The Economist magazine has had a "Slavery Problem" since 1843.
A public service as a response to Nigeria's removal of history from its school curriculum
The Cape Town company that designs and markets "slave ship" ironing boards and aprons.
The writer went for a visit and found Stellenbosch, a Western Cape town that is home to one of South Africa's universities, strange, interesting and also very sad.
The Dutch are quick to celebrate "12 Years a Slave," but what if Steve McQueen had decided to make the film about Dutch slavery and colonial history?
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.
The trouble with the official Dutch commemoration of the abolition of slavery. It leaves out the descendants of victims altogether.
The historian John Edwin Mason's photographs of Cape Town's New Year's Carnival.