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Colonialism

July 2024

  • A woman in a dress carrying two suitcases walks on a dirt road past tents, cars and a man with a box on his shoulders in the sun in Cyprus in 1974

    ‘Turkish troops fired on our hotel, the invasion had begun’: 50 years after Cyprus was torn apart

  • The museum’s gilded copper and glass necklace

    Belgium museum wrestles with colonial past, with 40,000 objects tainted with violence

  • people fly flags

    US steps up sanctions against Israeli settlers and ‘outposts’ in occupied West Bank

  • Simukai Chigudu. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes – podcast

  • ‘We want to ruffle a few feathers’: Liverpool gallery confronts colonial past

  • Firelei Báez review – bring on the furry ciguapas: magnetic visions of diaspora

  • Artist or monster? Mammoth new Gauguin show reckons with colonial legacy – to limited success

  • Push to rename La Trobe University due to namesake’s links to ‘genocidal violence’

June 2024

  • toppling statues

    ‘Imperial nostalgia has become so extreme’: Sathnam Sanghera on the conflict surrounding colonial history

  • José Maria Neves talking into a microphone in front of a green marble wall

    Rise of far right makes reparations debate tough, says Cape Verde president

May 2024

  • A moel ship is examined by people in a museum

    Manahahtáanung or Manhattan? Tribal representatives call for apology for Dutch settlement of New York

  • A rocky landscape behind a stone wall

    Call for port extension to be halted as genocide remains are found on Namibia’s Shark Island

  • Globe and old books

    I agree that Britain is a work in progress. But let’s be wary of distorting the past

  • Author Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the ‘amputation’ of the Black British literature master's course at Goldsmiths University.

    UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts

  • So empire and the slave trade contributed little to Britain’s wealth? Pull the other one, Kemi Badenoch

    Will Hutton

  • Dorset auction house withdraws Egyptian human skulls from sale

April 2024

  • Mihir Bose

    I came to Britain from India, fulfilled a dream, and I say this: we’re a great country, but a work in progress

    Mihir Bose
  • The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History in Lagos, Nigeria.

    Noisy, performative and unapologetically non-European: Nigeria welcomes a museum like no other

  • Semi-naked cartoon savages … the Jarvis Mural.

    ‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’: how RIBA is decolonising its HQ

  • A 19th-century engraving showing slaves in Brazil, one of Portugal’s colonies

    Portuguese government rejects president’s suggestion of slavery reparations

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