Many scholars have studied the effects of colonial management on terrestrial resources, but what about the effect of ...

University of Cambridge research associate Harriet Mercer on how colonialism has fuelled global warming and made many communities more vulnerable to its effects Colonialism, the report asserts, has ...

Prior to the first world war, sprawling European empires collectively controlled roughly 80% of Earth’s landmass. Following WWII, that percentage drastically shrank, as colonies and occupied ...

Few questions in economic history generate more heat than the one that seems, on the surface, most straightforward: Did ...

1. Intimate encounters: an archaeology of sexualities within colonial worlds / Eleanor Conlin Casella and Barbara L. Voss -- 2. Sexual effects: postcolonial and queer perspectives on the archaeology ...

For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion into Gaza following the October 2023 Hamas attack against Israel. In March 2024, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations ...

President Ramaphosa calls for reparations to address Africa’s colonial legacy President Cyril Ramaphosa has renewed calls for reparations to address the enduring impact of colonialism and slavery on ...

The consequences of colonialism are “still being felt to this day”, the UN Chef de Cabinet, Courtenay Rattray, told the Special Committee on Decolonisation on Friday. Speaking on behalf of ...

Ghana’s most important development problem is arguably the disparity between the north and south of the country. The north is acutely underdeveloped, trailing the south in practically all metrics of ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah is receiving worldwide attention after being awarded last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. His latest novel “Afterlives” is set in colonial East Africa occupied by Germany in the ...

A new exhibition at the Africa Museum in Belgium takes a frank look at a large-scale propaganda painting and the institution’s own past role in adding to the spin. By Nina Siegal Reporting from ...