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Though dominated by British and US events, Black History for Every Day of the Year shows the connections of people of African descent across the world.
Corrective policies should be implemented as part of a holistic, long-term strategy to address historical injustices and create a more equitable South African society.
Guinness adverts show how African men’s search for validation can enrich western corporations.
Access to halal mortgages, which provide interest-free housing loans, has been growing in the US.
Presidential candidate’s potential ties to an Irish slave owner complicate narratives around colonial legacies and the proper place of Black Irish identity in history.
Repatriation of looted African art is no longer a marginalised topic, but reaps few rewards.
Most of the plants we know and admire were named after white, western men. Indigenous knowledge has been largely absent from the field of botany.
Amitav Ghosh has used his storytelling prowess to outline the historical and political roots of climate change within systems of power and oppression.
The name Africa was given to the continent by European explorers, exploiters, slavers and colonists. It ignores the indigenous people and their accomplishments.
The Top End heads to the polls this Saturday. In a territory that has been both over-governed and neglected, there’s little on offer for Indigenous communities.
Space may be considered the final frontier, but the US was once a frontier, too. How can space industry leaders avoid repeating practices that led to colonialism in the 18th century and beyond?
The author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and other classic novels used the words ‘slave’ and ‘slavery’ nearly a dozen times in her books.
The Long Shadow of German Colonialism tells of a brutal history, and how this past lives on today.
The Anarchy is becoming a modern classic in its exploration of unrestricted corporate power through the British East India Company.
It’s the biggest naval exercise in the world. But for the region’s Indigenous people, it brings exploitation and environmental damage.
Jan Mashiani and Len Tau apparently found themselves in the US in 1904 as part of a world’s fair displaying ‘savages’.
“New world” wines are much more likely to be associated with entrepreneurial growers and terraces of bulging fruit than all the black and indigenous slaves who helped enable them.
If Chaucer makes a comeback in the proposed English curriculum rewrite, we shouldn’t dismiss what his work tells us about human nature – and contemporary New Zealand.
In this bonus episode, you’ll meet some of the producers who help make this podcast to revisit some of our favourite episodes from past seasons.
Top contributors
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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