Sasha Huber’s work often involves renaming colonial landmarks, including a mountain in Switzerland.
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The Banyamulenge have been viewed as strangers in their own country – the violence targeting them revolves around this misconception.
The joint border commission between Kenya and South Sudan is a step in the right direction.
If a new non-alignment is to be achieved in Africa, the foreign military bases of the US, France, and China - and the Russian military presence - must be dismantled.
Edward Said’s seminal 1978 book, Orientalism, explores how often racist or romanticised stereotypes create a worldview that justifies Western colonialism and imperialism.
He failed to understand that the struggle for justice and freedom in southern Africa was changing the world - and diplomacy itself.
‘Tár’ shines a spotlight on the challenges of working in the ultraconservative world of classical music, including complex social issues such as misogyny, racism and homophobia.
We encourage everyone to learn te reo Māori, but if not done well and ethically, it could be another wave of colonisation.
Pope Francis will be part of a peace mission to South Sudan, where thousands have been killed in ongoing violence.
The genocide of the Herero people lives on in today’s Namibia and Perivi Katjavivi’s film illustrates this.
He will have a joyful welcome but a difficult task - to challenge negative values while enabling a more African Catholic church.
Football provides a way for unpopular elites to build political capital – but also creates space for citizens to voice dissent.
African Catholics are growing in number. They are also reinventing and reinterpreting Christianity.
John Chilembwe features on Malawi’s banknotes and is remembered in a public holiday every year. But he is little-known elsewhere.
As protected and conserved areas increase, an equity-based approach that respects Indigenous rights can help bring the transformative changes we need to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.
The ravages of climate change and hunger do not occur in isolation, but are part of the system we have built.
Few Canadians know about the doctrine of coverture and how it stripped Indigenous women of their agency.
A public relations move by Loblaw Companies is just the latest in a long line of big business antics stretching back to pre-Confederation fur trade in Canada.
Indonesia has criminalized same-sex sexuality, but trans people are finding support in some trans-inclusive mosques and churches.
Engineers say the current ‘iron ring’ ritual is steeped in colonial worldviews and excludes the public from understanding engineers’ ethical obligations.
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa and Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations, Utrecht University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lakehead University
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Associate professor, McGill University
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Professor in Political Science, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Head of Research Programme, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Associate Professor Sport History, Stellenbosch University
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
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Curator & Section Head, Oceania, The British Museum
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Associate Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
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Professor, Department of Archaeology and Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town