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Sarah Baartman’s name can be elevated to the highest point of the University of Cape Town’s campus, but if her legacy isn’t built into each classroom and interaction the honour is hollow.
One of the ‘first white women’ to travel in the Northern Territory, Elsie Masson’s attitudes to the Aboriginal people she met expressed the contradictions of racial thought at this time.
Old 19th-century agreements between the U.S. government which expelled Indigenous peoples from their land and gave it cheaply to white settlers continue to impact inequalities in the United States.
Donald Trump portrays migrants as a foreign problem ‘dumped’ on America’s doorstep. That view ignores the global forces that bind nations together, including trade, climate change and colonization.
Villagers from a community in South Africa’s Eastern Cape fought to be consulted and for the power to consent to mining their land.
We need a more nuanced approach to the world’s last isolated peoples.
Australia is becoming more diverse, but these charts show we are still predominantly an Anglo society with strained relations with other cultures, particularly Indigenous and Muslim Australians.
Colonial powers plundered the heritage of countries all over the world – restitution is long overdue.
Outdated water permit systems are threatening food security on the continent. Here’s what can be done.
For William Kentridge, searching and erasure serves as a model for understanding our place in the world.
Hipsters exhibit a nostalgia for the past that echoes right-leaning political movements around the world.
The question of land has been hotly contested in Namibia ever since independence.
Despite South Africa’s progressive constitution, LGBTIQ people continue to face discrimination in all social spheres.
Jair Bolsonaro has very rightwing views likely to put a final nail in the coffin off Brazil’s Africa moment spearheaded by former president Lula da Silva.
British troops allegedly killed 24 unarmed villagers in Batang Kali in 1948, but the government still refuses a public inquiry.
Nauru is best known as a site of Australian offshore asylum detention. But everyone on the island - not just refugees - is struggling with the issue of environmental change that threatens their lives and homes.
Today, many Australian urbanites see rivers as little more than picturesque places for a paddle. But in the colonial era, rivers served as highways, drinking sources, sewers, and routes to discovery.
Shortcomings of Namibia’s land reforms suggest that voluntary, market-based transactions might not be suitable.
The UK is increasingly isolated in its claim to the Chagos Islands. If an international court finds in Mauritius’s favour, the implications could be huge.
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