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SM Slader’s 1824 engraving Sale of a Negro Family, of a slave auction in Cape Town. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
ARTICLE

The truth about Cape slavery and historical misrepresentations

This is an edited extract from Patric Tariq Mellet’s The Truth About Cape Slavery

  • Patric Tariq Mellet
6 min read
Blood and freedom: A memorial in the Namibian capital Windhoek to the genocide of the Herero and Nama committed by German colonial troops from 1904 to 1907. Photo: Jürgen Bätz/Getty Images
ABDULRAZAK GURNAH

Examining colonial narratives and African representation in German literature

This is an edited extract of Henning Melber’s The Long Shadow of German Colonialism.

  • Henning Melber
4 min read