Several campaigns have been waged against statues linked to Africa’s colonial past.
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The fate of several colonial statues in Africa continues to be a subject of controversy.
HRH The Princess Mary in 1912, aged 15. She was was the third child of King George V and Queen Mary.
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The story of how a teenage princess launched one of the first global charity campaigns.
In this March 2019 photo, Central American migrants wait for food in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied minors in El Paso, Texas. The migrants were then destined for detention centres.
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Concentration camps are by no means only synonymous with Nazi terror or totalitarianism. In fact, concentration camps have deep roots in the culture and politics of Anglo-American liberal democracies.
The army’s latest recruitment campaign was mocked for its political correctness.
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In a world that is unrecognisable to that of 1914, should the British army be relying on recruitment tactics that are a century old?
Statues like these - here Paul Kruger at Pretoria’s Church Square - are a reminder of a time when Afrikaners were the ruling class in South Africa.
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Afrikaners in post-apartheid South Africa struggle with a historical sense of inferiority that reinforces their whiteness.