Tag: colonialism
Pope in Canada: When repentance is not enough – politics
Open detailed view Graves in the Ermineskin Cemetery in Maskwacis. (Photo: Cole Burston/AFP) There were 215 children. The youngest was just three years old. Dumped in an anonymous mass grave,…
Haiti: The Toussaint Louvertures Biography by Sudhir Hazareesingh – Culture
The history of enlightenment and human rights cannot be written without the Haitian revolution. From its historical beginnings, the emergence of modern constitutional states based on free and equal rights…
Looted art: agreement on the return of Benin bronzes – culture
Just one day after an agreement was reached between Germany and Nigeria on the so-called Benin Bronzes, the Linden Museum in Stuttgart is expecting a distinguished visitor from the African…
“African Europeans”: Olivette Otele’s History of the Continent. – Culture
Juan Latino was a child prodigy, an exceptional scholar of the 16th century, Latinist, humanist, poet of high lords – and he was a slave and black. Born in Andalusia…
Lumumba’s remains return to Congo – Politics
They have laid the flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the coffin, in the courtyard of the Egmont Palace in Brussels on Monday morning the soldiers are…
humanities anti-racist refoundation – culture
The current renewal movements at the university, which advocate a “decolonial”, “anti-racist” and “anti-sexist” orientation of the humanities and social sciences, do not primarily problematize the materials and methods dealt…
Experience Hamburg: The colonial legacy of the port city
Colonialism is also part of Hamburg’s DNA and yet people like to keep it a secret – especially in Hafencity and the Speicherstadt. source site
Hamburg and Colonialism: Three Sights and Their History – Travel
The Human Zoo Open detailed view A historical “Völkerschau” in the Tierpark Hagenbeck. (Photo: imago/Arkivi) Almost two million visitors flock to Hagenbeck Zoo every year. The exotic jungle nights were…
Love at the time of the slave trade: David Diop’s “Journey of No Return” – Culture
Almost overnight, David Diop, the Franco-Senegalese literature professor and writer, rose to international fame when he won the British International Booker Prize 2021 for his novel “Night is Our Blood…
How the discovery of Easter Island turned into a fiasco 300 years ago – Society
Of Hans Holzhaider The leprosy station was a little way outside of the village. “We sit on a rough wooden bench in the sparse shade of a derelict, stinking hut.…