Browsing: Colonialism

Belgium is being forced to cough up compensation for stealing mixed-race children from African mothers in their colony in Congo. Here’s another thing it should make…

Here’s one African treasure the British could never get their thieving hands on. The Golden Stool is a sacred bit of furniture that’s been revered by…

Why do Christians in Africa strongly support the settler-colonial ideology of Zi*nism, despite living on a continent still reckoning with the legacy of colonialism? To understand…

In 1988, renowned Nigerian poet and novelist Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) reflected on the literature he studied at university. Upon reading these works closely, Achebe realised that…

Narratives on the prison-industrial complex often revolve around the US and what civil-rights activist, attorney and author Michelle Alexander terms ‘the new Jim Crow.’ However, prisons-for-profit…

During colonialism, indigenous African languages and ways of life were obliterated by White European settlers. Africans were denied all knowledge of self and robbed of their…

Despite growing calls for reparations for slavery, the UK refuses to accept that it’s high time to pay up. So much is clear from recent remarks…

Skulls and other human remains from the Ekoi (West Africa), Jivaro (South America) and Naga (India and Myanmar) peoples were recently listed for auction by Swan…

Congratulations to Burkina Faso, which has made tremendous strides toward land reclamation this year. In this speech given in the Burkinabé town of Banfora in April,…

Julian McCall moved from the United States to China when he was 15. He was expecting police to pull him over while running, wearing a hoodie,…