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Wrought iron process that drove British industrial revolution success and colonialism was appropriated from black metallurgists, historical records now suggest.

We praise charity efforts to combat climate change in countries like Bangladesh as generous, without critiquing why they are made necessary in the first place.

Fascism is, arguably, the application of colonial violence to the imperial core. Franco implemented what he had learnt during the colonial conflict in the civil war.

Modern policing has its origin in colonial violence. The University of Chicago has long played a part in cultivating, promoting, spreading, and normalizing the tools of such state violence.

What peanut trading in late 19th century Senegal tells us about the fine line between slavery and freedom.

South Africa has 12 official languages. The two most dominant are isiZulu and isiXhosa. While the Zulu and Xhosa people share a rich common history, they have also found themselves engaged in ethnic conflict and division, notably during urban wars between 1990 and 1994. A new book, Divided by the Word, examines this history – and how colonisers and African interpreters created the two distinct languages, entrenched by apartheid education.

The closure of the border crossing is a living embodiment of Canada’s continued white supremacist and Eurocentric foundations

Out of a common history emerged racism, capitalism, and the whole world. This offers us a clue on how to change that world.

Despite the significant societal changes that have occurred in the last 150 years, sexist and racist narratives are still common in science, medicine and education.

An archaeologist traces the current protests in Peru to exploitive labor policies enacted in silver mines during Spanish colonial rule from 1532 to 1800.