The anti-colonialist
Rafia Zakaria Published October 25, 2023 THE history of South Asia and most other outposts of the British (or the Dutch or French) is replete with the struggles of the ancestors of […]
How Africa was carved up … 134 years ago …
T-aylan Özgür November 18 at 7:16 PM · 134 years ago today on the 15th November 1884,began the gathering of the most powerful European nations in Berlin to divide the African continent among themselves.Without any respect […]
Switzerland and its colonists
Switzerland had no colonies – yet some Swiss worked hand in hand with the colonial powers and profited from their seizure of land and resources on other continents. This content was published on August 14, 2020 – David Eugster (Text), Corinna Staffe (Illustration) Around 1800, learned European men were likely […]
Another move against French colonialism: The eco currency in Africa
BY AHMET KAVAS OP-ED JAN 05, 2021 West African CFA franc currency banknotes and coins sit in this arranged photograph in Dakar, Senegal, Jan. 11, 2015. (Photo by Getty Images) […]
How Switzerland profited from colonialism
Source: Swiss Info Switzerland had no colonies of its own – which was exactly why it was able to profit from colonialism. The country’s relationship with the great colonial powers […]
Cambridge is right: you can’t take pride in the past and ignore the horror of slavery
Gaby Hinsliff The university’s inquiry into its links to the slave trade is an admirable attempt to grapple with the whole truth of its history Tue 30 Apr 2019 ‘Unless […]
View from Turkey: It is payback time against the colonialists
İLNUR ÇEVIK @ilnurcevik Migrants rest at a makeshift emergency center at Barbate’s municipal sports center in the south of Spain, June 29. Instead of facing the reality of the […]
It’s sad but true that in colonial times, our government was better at responding to human rights abuses abroad than it is now
Those we trust to represent us will not take up the battle against injustice these days because they are now too involved in the infliction of this injustice, albeit by proxy Robert […]