Xenophobia negates the spirit of pan-Africanism, especially its ideal that Africans share a mutual bond, regardless of their geographical location.
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Pope Francis recently completed a tour of three African nations. His visit needs to be understood in the context of the church's long history in Africa and its modern-day difficulties.
After five centuries of extraction, the Amazon region stands on the brink.
Why doesn't China put down the protests in Hong Kong? Maybe it doesn't want to.
The situation in Kashmir shows that colonisation isn't just done by Europeans – India has a long history of it too.
Kipling's Jungle Book is seen by some as an allegory for white colonialism in India. But there's more to it than that.
Colonialism and apartheid sought to make traditional leaders accountable to white officials by tying them to land.
The Peterloo massacre was one of the worst atrocities committed on British soil, but across the empire there were many such acts.
What Beijing could learn from the British response to the 1967 Hong Kong riots.
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
Germany praises itself for having declared a 'special responsibility' for Namibia since independence. But the relationship is viewed differently from Windhoek.
A new film chronicling the impact of racism on Indigenous football star Adam Goodes is both a damning and hopeful portrait of contemporary Australia.
The recent ruling to decriminalize same sex behaviour in Botswana may have a positive impact on the rest of southern Africa.
Migration helped forge the very social, cultural and economic infrastructures that Britain now seeks to wall off from the rest of the world.
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.
Chinese media sees the protests very differently to Western media.
A scholar went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti and learned how an oppressive slave past has shaped its religious present.
This major exhibition examines Tasmania’s overlooked history of dispossession and frontier war.
The UK must accept that colonialism belongs in the history books, and that it must comply with its obligations under international law.
Modern western science must be stripped of the epistemological and methodological privileges it enjoys.
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Senior Lecturer in Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Political Science, Freiburg University
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Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, University of Western Australia
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
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Emeritus Professor of History, Lancaster University
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Post-doctoral Fellow in French Language and Culture, University of Westminster
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Research Associate, Centre for Indian Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor, Rhodes University
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South African visual artist and senior lecturer of Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University, Rhodes University
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Director and Assistant Professor Measurement & Evaluation School of Professional and Extended Studies, American University
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Visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paulo and Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of Dutch and Flemish Studies, University of Michigan
