Mau Mau: how Kenya’s history of colonial violence speaks through living bodies and graves

Between 1952 and 1963, Kenya experienced one of the most violent chapters in its modern history. The Mau Mau uprising, rooted ...
Greek Reporter

The History of the Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea

The strategic, cultural, and economic significance of ancient Greek colonies in the Black Sea and their enduring legacy.
The New York Times

A Novelist Writing on Colonization Finds an Audience in France, at Last

Mathieu Belezi has been fascinated by the history of colonial Algeria for years. Acclaim finally came with his latest book, a sign of changing times. “It is my duty to ask questions, especially ...
Salon

How the evolution of domestic cats traces the history of colonization

Human history is etched into the DNA of domesticated animals, which is when we bend the evolutionary trajectory of species to serve our own purposes. We primates have domesticated many animals, ...
Middle East Eye

France: How the 'positive' role of colonisation is still discussed in history textbooks

The teaching of France's imperial past at school is hostage to an ideological framework that euphemises or obscures the abuses of the colonial era 'The resistances of colonised people', such as during ...
The New Yorker

The War in Ukraine Is a Colonial War

When Vladimir Putin denies the reality of the Ukrainian state, he is speaking the familiar language of empire. For five hundred years, European conquerors called the societies that they encountered ...
The New Yorker

The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...