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Europe’s refugee colonialism
Image via Wiki Commons. In August 2015 when Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel declared an open-door policy for Syrian refugees — the first and only European country to do so — it seemed possible...
View ArticleLand, landlessness and the Namibian genocide
A scene in the outstretched countryside of Namibia, 2016. A dusty cattle auction is taking place on the edge of the Kalahari desert. Skinny cows are paraded in front of the tribune with buyers: about a...
View ArticleHow do Germans continue to ignore the Namibian genocide?
In July 2015, the German government acknowledged, in an as yet informal way, the genocide perpetrated by German colonial troops in present day Namibia during 1904-1908. Negotiations between the two...
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We are all Helen Zille. Or, why the West thinks that colonialism was not all...
In a series of tweets circulated earlier today, Helen Zille, who is Premier of the Western Cape (one of South Africa’s nine provinces) and the former leader of the country’s second largest political...
View ArticleThe Dutch disease
Coming ahead of the French presidential elections in April and the German national election in September, last Wednesday’s election in the Netherlands (won handily by the center-right VVD of Prime...
View ArticleThe unfinished business between Cameroon and France
In January this year, Cameroonian President Paul Biya (in office since 1982), cut off the southwest and northwest regions of the country’s access to the internet to punish anglophone Cameroonians for...
View ArticleFrench elections and France’s colonial war in Algeria: What’s in an apology?
In a recent interview on a private Algerian TV news station, French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron called France’s colonial history an act of barbarism and a crime against humanity; if elected...
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How the Congo crisis reshaped international relations
Image via Wikimedia. In July 1960, within a week of achieving independence from Belgium, the Congo (later renamed Zaire and now known as the DRC) was plunged into a civil conflict that soon turned into...
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Blaxploitation, Italian style
The Eritrean-Italian actress Zeudi Araya who appeared in number of Italian films in the 1970s. Italian cinema is renowned the world over for its technical and artistic innovations, from the neorealism...
View ArticleThe Third World Quarterly debacle
Helen Zille was the leader of South Africa’s second largest political party, the Democratic Alliance, until recently. Her praise of colonialism and the supposed “good” that the selfless and enlightened...
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