While Europe experienced an age of evangelical awakening in the eighteenth century, political circumstances in India posed challenges to the work of missionary preaching.
In navigating colonialism, we have to ask ourselves, who is striving for control.
Time has not forgiven him for his racist and imperialist views
Can we really believe that this election, regardless of which side wins, offers us any real choice or hope for things to get better?
This is part of a grand narrative that, offensive as it is, asks why the Jewish people let themselves be killed, instead of asking why the system enabled it to happen–the same narrative also exists in the cases of colonialism and slavery.
This isn’t the first time the former imperial hegemon has put its weight behind Zionism
Racism against people of Arab and African descent in France has become almost banal – something that takes place and no longer raises an eyebrow.
Through its 300 pages, Kuang exposes the performative nature of anti-racism in publishing: showcasing the boxes that people of colour get put in and how difficult it is for them to be heard.
In this posthumous effort, 'Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), Graeber posits, in characteristic fashion, that the Enlightenment would not have happened if not for the pirates around the Malagasy coast.
The book traces the transformative impact that the opium trade had on India, China, Britain and the United States, with profound long-term consequences for the birth of the modern world, and of contemporary globalism.
Every culture has its own identity, sometimes through a craft or uniqueness that it is known for. In the late 18th century,
To remember and to be informed are the most important duties that the colonised bear.
The reality of the communities that are yet to recover from the trauma of Partition.
The longest-serving monarch of the British Empire, Queen Elizabeth II, has passed away at the age of 96, putting an end to a reign that lasted seven decades.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says he is not demanding "any apology from anybody" after UK Prime Minister David Cameron labelled his country "fantastically corrupt".
