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30 Aug 2023 3 minute read

Ending the artwash

UK arts had largely ditched fossil fuel sponsorships after years of activism. Danny Chivers reports on how...

An older man wearing a hat and scarf looks into the camera. The word Event has been added to the right of the picture.

30 Aug 2023 1 minute read

Event: Decolonize how? (Glasgow)

Join us in Glasgow on Friday 15 September to explore what it could mean to reckon with the impacts of colonialism and why...

17 Aug 2023 6 minute read

How activists are exposing the colonial history of museums

Museums and colonialism are inextricably linked. Julio Etchart explores how projects in colonizing...

20 Aug 2023 6 minute read

How Rhodes Must Fall amplified calls to decolonize

Musawenkosi Cabe speaks to activists who were part of the Rhodes Must Fall push to decolonize universities...

13 Aug 2023 13 minute read

Decolonization – the long goodbye

If you want to build a more just world, we need to confront the legacies of empire, argues Amy Hall.

16 Aug 2023 15 minute read

How Barbados ditched the Queen

Amy Hall reports from Barbados on abolishing the British monarchy and the legacies of colonialism.

21 Jan 2022 5 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

How British colonizers caused the Bengal famine

Jason Hickel shines a different light on a catastrophe that killed three million Indians.

Yinka Shonibare sits in a wheelchair smiling

21 Dec 2021 4 minute read

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Spotlight: Yinka Shonibare

The acclaimed – and playful – sculptor Yinka Shonibare impresses on Subi Shah his love for...

8 Mar 2019 4 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Watch: why did the British Army kill a one-legged man?

As the UK hopes to open new military bases in the Caribbean, Phil Miller investigates the killing of a man by the British...

9 Nov 2018 4 minute read

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Remembrance must include Britain’s colonial legacy

Anu Shukla reports from Smethwick, where a statue has been unveiled that commemorates the...

Herero who survived the genocide after escaping through the Omaheke desert. Photo from the Galerie Bassenge via Wikimedia Commons.

1 Aug 2018 6 minute read

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Namibia’s long fight for justice

Communities that were decimated by Germany’s forgotten genocide are now demanding justice. Gouri Sharma...

1 Dec 2017 3 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

A word with Nitin Sawhney

The British-Indian musician on colonialism, music and being ‘someone who gives a shit’. By Subi Shah.

18 Aug 2016 5 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Climate change and colonial history make a toxic combination

Without proper context, the new research can be mis-read to be against ethnic diversity, writes Alex Randall...

3 Feb 2015 3 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

Ministers must answer to Nigerian land-grab investments

UK aid is funding a ‘new wave of colonialism’ as Africa is carved up by big business, writes Chris Walker.

10 Sep 2014 3 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

The Western way isn’t always the best way

Development – when forced onto poor countries – is a dangerous concept, argues Amit Singh.

1 Jun 2014 5 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Welcome to Kaurna country

In the Adelaide plains, one Aboriginal language is enjoying an unlikely revival, explains Katrina Power.

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