Latest articles on Colonisation

Africa’s youth must continue the struggle of great leaders

Analysis Mcebo Dlamini - 8 Mar 2020

Our continent is not just united geographically, but also by our shared experiences and we should use that to build a bright future

Football on the colonial frontier

Sport Luke Feltham - 17 Jan 2020

Still fighting for their right to return home, exiled Chagossians are using football to unite a diaspora

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Decolonisation can’t just be a metaphor

Article Greer Valley - 14 Nov 2019

Decolonising museums requires more than knowledge exchange and lending back stolen artefacts

‘There is blood in the tea’

Africa Nick Perry - 1 Nov 2019

Kenyans who were expelled from their land by British colonisers — to make way for tea plantations — are demanding justice

Class fluidity ruled in ancient Zim

Article Bongekile Macupe - 31 May 2019

A UCT academic has won a top award, highlighting the role of local researchers in uncovering Africa’s rich history

History plus myth means dignity

Article Shaun De Waal - 3 Apr 2019

Mda’s latest novel paints a picture of how the West, then and now, refashions the other to validate its own preconceptions

Africa’s identity begins at home

Africa Mako Muzenda - 8 Feb 2019

After all we have been through, we still don’t get to define our own continent. This holds us back

Africa is being colonised all over again

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Jan 2019

'We have failed to hold our African leaders to account,' writes Mustafa Bothwell Mheta

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The other African ‘Sara’ of Europe’s obsession

Article Rafaela Stalbalk - 16 Nov 2018

The grave of Sara Makatemele in Sweden has provoked much curiosity about her life and story

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