Tag: colonialism
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Algerian MPs have passed a law that declares France’s colonisation of the country a state crime and demands reparations and an apology. https://www.africanews.com/2025/12/25/algeria-passes-law-declaring-french-colonisation-a-state-crime-demands-apology-and-reparat/ more ›
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In Wifredo Lam’s painting Rumblings of the Earth (1950), nothing and no one appears human. Eyes, breasts, and mouths intermingle with horns, hooves, blades, and arrows. Hybrid figures rise from deep within… more ›
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Algerian foreign minister says African countries and peoples continue to pay a heavy price for colonialism https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/30/african-leaders-push-for-recognition-of-colonial-crimes-and-reparations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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British art historian Hermione Waterfield and South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti have retuned objects to Ghana’s Asante Kingdom https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/13/private-collectors-return-of-artefacts-to-ghana-highlights-uks-inaction-on-restitution-heritage-experts-say?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&utm_campaign=acacae721e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_11_07_10_51_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-5c0240b3a5-62187982 more ›
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Researchers were perplexed, when they discovered that the remains of one woman and one man shared close genetic similarity with present-day Yoruba, Mende, Mandenka, and Esan groups from Sub-Saharan West… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/PbwCNun To start our new instalment of episodes about the most consequential political trials in history David explores the trial of the eighteenth century: the impeachment of Warren Hastings that ran… more ›
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Private security work can be a brutal world of short-term contracts, exploitation, and under-regulation, where the imperative of profit is expected to trump collective notions of military brotherhood. Why then… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/YxBs9l4 Who was Commissioner Lin and how did he crack down on foreign opium in China? Why was Charles Elliot so hopeless that he landed Queen Victoria with a… more ›
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has long been the world’s main measure of economic success, rewarding activities that generate immediate financial returns. https://www.semafor.com/article/03/10/2025/how-to-value-africas-natural-wealth-in-global-finance more ›