Browsing: Britain

Pan-African activist Arikana Chihombori-Quao tells a funny story here about getting to her hotel room in Ghana, only to find a portrait of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth…

A nice, well-kept garden looks innocuous enough, but the reasons it became popular aren’t so beautiful. We look at the thorny colonial history of the British…

Group chats on WhatsApp can get awkward when the wrong people have accidentally been invited. As France and Britain find out when they get roasted by…

The British ruling class has often looked down on people of colour, especially if they are from impoverished inner-city neighbourhoods. So, when ‘Sean,’ who sounds like…

Mere years after presiding over the Nuremberg trials, Britain was unleashing the same horror on their colonies in Africa. During the struggle for independence in Kenya,…

There’s a new scramble for Africa few are talking about. Countries are buying up huge swathes of the continent’s forests to off-set their own carbon footprints.…

While Britain loudly proclaims a ‘rules based order,’ it has no qualms flouting international rulings to retain control over territories. Take the example of the Chagos…

Reuters reported on 5 December that Mali issued an arrest warrant for Mark Bristow, CEO of Canada-based mining giant Barrick Gold, for money laundering and violating…

Momodou Taal, a 30-year-old PhD student at Cornell University in the United States, will neither be disenrolled from the institution nor deported from the country after…

Profits from the enslavement of Africans laid the foundation for Britain’s industrial revolution and global empire. Yet calls for reparations remain unanswered – with the monarchy…