A demonstrator in Hong Kong on Aug. 24, 2019.
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Why doesn’t China put down the protests in Hong Kong? Maybe it doesn’t want to.
Protesters throw stones at Indian paramilitaries during a protest in Srinagar on August 16.
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The situation in Kashmir shows that colonisation isn’t just done by Europeans – India has a long history of it too.
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Kipling’s Jungle Book is seen by some as an allegory for white colonialism in India. But there’s more to it than that.
Inkosi Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, right, with Dali Mpofu and Winnie Mandela in 1989.
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Colonialism and apartheid sought to make traditional leaders accountable to white officials by tying them to land.
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The Peterloo massacre was one of the worst atrocities committed on British soil, but across the empire there were many such acts.
Protestors in Hong Kong airport on August 12.
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What Beijing could learn from the British response to the 1967 Hong Kong riots.
1909 image of a sugar mill, Barbados - a Caribbean island with a history of many colonial slavery laws.
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The vicious ideology that allegedly drove a gunman to kill 22 people in El Paso, Texas last week could be traced back to a tiny island on the eastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea
Daniel Günther, prime minister of Schleswig-Holstein, at the Swakopmund monument to colonial concentration camp victims.
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Germany praises itself for having declared a ‘special responsibility’ for Namibia since independence. But the relationship is viewed differently from Windhoek.
Adam Goodes in The Australian Dream: in the film he talks of finding an identity in football and with The Sydney Swans.
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A new film chronicling the impact of racism on Indigenous football star Adam Goodes is both a damning and hopeful portrait of contemporary Australia.
Activists celebrate outside the High Court in Gaborone, Botswana on June 11, 2019. Botswana became the latest country to decriminalize gay sex.
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The recent ruling to decriminalize same sex behaviour in Botswana may have a positive impact on the rest of southern Africa.
The Emigrant’s Last Sight of Home – a painting by Richard Redgrave, 1858.
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Migration helped forge the very social, cultural and economic infrastructures that Britain now seeks to wall off from the rest of the world.
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Factors behind the hits and misses of the higher education sector in Kenya and East Africa. What needs to be done to address the problems.
Media tour Hong Kong’s Legislative Council building after protesters broke in on July 1.
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Chinese media sees the protests very differently to Western media.
Haiti’s black saint known as Grann Sainte Anne Charitable in her European Catholic form and Ti Saint Anne, in Vodoo form.
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A scholar went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti and learned how an oppressive slave past has shaped its religious present.
A still from Gough’s video Hunting Ground (pastoral).
This major exhibition examines Tasmania’s overlooked history of dispossession and frontier war.
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The UK must accept that colonialism belongs in the history books, and that it must comply with its obligations under international law.
Historically, Khoisan people from southern Africa were used as scientific subjects in racist experiments.
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Modern western science must be stripped of the epistemological and methodological privileges it enjoys.
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission called for culturally relevant programming for sport officials as well as anti-racism awareness training. Here, former Chicago Blackhawks player Fred Sasakamoose is honoured at an Edmonton Oilers and Chicago Blackhawks game in 2017.
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If hockey is to be a sport that brings people together and fosters what’s best about Canada, it needs to reckon with Canada’s – and hockey’s – history of racism and settler colonialism.
The Dutch Royal Family lays a wreath at the National Monument in Amsterdam on May 4, 2009.
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The Dutch holiday on May 4 that commemorates the country’s dead from World War II and after reveals how Dutch policy divides people along racial lines and ignores the Indonesian dead in that war.
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This is a transcript of episode three of The Anthill podcast series India Tomorrow on Kashmir.