Colonisation

Land is more than a physical resource — it is the foundation of identity, freedom and dignity in places as far-flung as North America, Australia and New Zealand to Gaza, India…

Like all wars, Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza with the backing of other imperialist countries and their industrial-military complex exacerbates the ecological and climate…

It was not only objects that were removed, knowledges — social, political, ecological and epistemological organisation —‚on the continent were destroyed

These elections are a warning of how history can be washed over and and used to promote modern dynasties

To survive our many problems we require creative thinking, with integrity; not vulgar populism as a blunt tool to capture power and glory

Afrophobia is an imported anti-African sentiment that internalises colonialism because current state borders never existed in African societies

South Africans’ behaviour and attitudes show that poor black working-class people, and black women in particular, are denied their innate humanity

Grégory Pierrot’s analysis of the deep roots of white supremacy and black exploitation in hipster culture in Decolonise Hipsters also offers a way out

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

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

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

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

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

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

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