Please don’t patronise us, Madame Zille
“There is something so terrible in watching a Black man trying at all points to be the dark ghost of a European” – Ayi Kwei …
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Why colonial symbols are loathed in Africa
The recent campaign in South Africa against colonial statues is just the tip of the iceberg in an Africa-wide phenomenon that is likely to result …
Britain/Africa: Scottish lessons
History reveals that Britain (the United Kingdom) has never protected indigenous or non-British interests – whether in Africa, Australasia, the Indian subcontinent or North America …
BHM: How Europe covered its back
Vincent Hiribarren is a lecturer in World History at King’s College, London. His work has led him to study many colonial-era archives of European countries …
BHM: The records of Empire
On 5 April 2011, The Times reported that British attempts “to cover up one of the darkest episodes in British colonial history have been revealed …
The African crisis of mass broken individuals
The trauma of colonialism and apartheid on the individual self has been given little attention or simply ignored. Yet apartheid and colonialism have left broken …
