Pakistan’s laws against blasphemy have been used to bring cases against numerous people over the years, and in particular, the country’s religious minorities.
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Operation Legacy highlights the repercussions faced when people with power determine what information is available to interpret events of the past.
Many believe Australia became it’s own country at federation in 1901, but that’s not strictly true. Instead, it happened more than 80 years later. Why don’t we celebrate it?
Variations of English names reveal the enduring effects of British rule - but there’s also a return to tradition.
Some explorers believed they had found unicorns depicted on rocks. The truth behind the paintings is far more interesting.
Too often, in discussions about tropical modernism, what African architects working in Africa were doing is overlooked. Their work matters.
Throughout its known history, Koh-i-Noor has been a symbol of imperial conquest and glory.
Performing at the coronation of King Charles III will be just one of many firsts for the activist soprano.
On the 75th anniversary of India’s partition, scholars from the US, Canada, France, UK and Australia write about their favorite book or film that best explains the trauma of a violent division.
The fear of domination of one ethnic group or section by another has persistently undermined efforts at democratic consolidation in Nigeria.
Tan France, of Queer Eye fame, delves into the skin-shade prejudice he experienced as a child in England and the colonial history at its roots.
Brexit has reopened an old battle over Northern Irish identity, leading to clashes in the street. Scores have been injured in the troubled UK territory’s worst outbreak of violence in decades.
Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage that started earlier this month in India, has survived wars and famine since its origin. But the biggest threat has been the spread of illness – back then as now.
What began in the 1940s as a revolutionary army created to liberate Myanmar from British colonial rule soon turned repressive. The country has been a military dictatorship on and off since 1962.
The king retained his position because undemocratic centralised power is too big a temptation for those who seek to benefit.
The story of Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement shows just how durable law enforcement institutions are – and why the road to reform goes straight uphill.
Kenya’s constitution-making process has exhibited a gyration pattern that often starts with a belief that governance reforms can rectify the country’s problems, but ends up as a power struggle.
That none of his collections were published in apartheid South Africa testifies to the police state’s censorship.
It is not hard to see the roots of 20th century apartheid policies in the legacy of the British settlers.
Racism against fellow Indians and classism against the poor characterised India’s early response to coronavirus, that is reminiscent of British imperial public health policies.
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