Society / Colonialism

Australian First Nations activist takes genocide case against the Crown, reports Zoe Holman.

Rising for reparatory justice, by Rosebell Kagumire.

Ecological destruction has been fuelled by extraction and colonialism for hundreds of years, and green capitalism is no different. We need to dismantle the political and economic structures that maintain the status quo, argues Vijay Kolinjivadi.

One year on from a landmark court ruling, the Ogiek of the Mau Forest are still waiting for reparations and collective land rights. Amy Hall reports from Kenya on a case that has the potential to change the lives of Indigenous people in East Africa and beyond.

Taken during a violent British raid, the Benin bronzes have sat in Western museums and private collections for over a century. Kieron Monks reports on Nigeria’s battle to get them back and what it means for the wider push to return works robbed from Africa.

Mass imprisonment and merciless policing were the preferred tools of control for European colonizers. Patrick Gathara explores the legacy left in Kenya.

The Museum of Black Civilizations has opened in Dakar yet many of its galleries remain empty.

Eight ways to live out your principles, suggests Yohann Koshy.

Yohann Koshy returns to the golden age of solidarity between Global South states and asks: what should a new internationalism look like?

Acclaimed British-Indian musician Nitin Sawhney talks to Subi Shah about colonialism, music as a passport to possibility and why he wants to be known as ‘someone who gives a shit’.