Society / Colonialism

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’.