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Painting of a raider on horseback (bottom right) with a musket and domestic stock. A ‘rain-animal’ (top right) was likely summoned to wash away the raiders’ tracks. Courtesy of Sam Challis and Brent Sinclair-Thomson

August 20, 2021

South Africa’s bandit slaves and the rock art of resistance

Sam Challis, University of the Witwatersrand and Brent Sinclair-Thomson, University of the Witwatersrand

Runaway slaves joined indigenous Khoe-San people and raided colonial farms. The rock art they left in their hideouts tells a fascinating story.

Tourists pose for pictures at the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. NATALIJA GORMALOVA/AFP via Getty Images

January 28, 2021

How former president Rawlings pioneered heritage tourism in Ghana – in his own words

Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, UMass Amherst

In a rare series of interviews, the late Ghanaian leader spoke of how the country’s slave trade was revisited as a vehicle for economic development.

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo’s sculpture dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Transatlantic slave trade on display in Montgomery, Alabama. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

January 25, 2021

Why the West is morally bound to offer reparations for slavery

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Wilfrid Laurier University

The turn towards authoritarianism, xenophobia and racism in Western democracies makes it unlikely that former Western slave-trading nations will agree to reparations in the near future.

The life-sized wooden statue of the Black Christ in St. Philip Church in Panama. Dan Lundberg/Flickr

October 10, 2019

Panama celebrates its black Christ, part of protest against colonialism and slavery

S. Kyle Johnson, Boston College

The statue of black Christ has a deep significance for the people of Panama. An object of deep devotion, it also serves as a reminder of colonialism.

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