DECOLONISING IN THE NEWS

2024

April

• Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism and Change – An Illustrated Review (Museum Geographies)
• Beyond images of war: Sammy Baloji’s work captures DR Congo’s vibrant arts and culture, challenging western views (The Conversation)
• Schools don’t need to bin Shakespeare – but it’s time for us to teach him differently (The Guardian)
• Cambridge’s slavery links have damaged its students (The Independent)
• Is It Possible to Decolonise a Biennial? (Art Review)
• Gabriel Massan’s Decolonial Games (Art Review)
• How Colonial Photography Shaped Representations of Southeast Asia (Art Review)
• I’m not afraid of anybody now’: the woman who revealed links between National Trust houses and slavery – and was vilified (The Guardian)
• EU must face legacy of colonialism and support reparations, say MEPs (The Guardian)
• ‘Hidden in plain sight’: the European city tours of slavery and colonialism (The Guardian)
• Surge of interest in Ethiopian culture boosts case for return of treasures, says Sissay (The Guardian)
• Recruitment of nurses from global south branded ‘new form of colonialism’ (The Guardian)

March

• To accurately portray histories, museums need to do more than ‘reimagine’ galleries (The Conversation)
• Church Commissioners’ research into historic links to African chattel enslavement (The Church of England)
• Church fund ‘not enough’ to right slavery wrongs (BBC News)
• THE FUND FOR HEALING, REPAIR AND JUSTICE (https://hrjfund.org/)
• The Repatriation Project. The Delayed Return of Native Remains (PROPUBLICA)
• The Blame – and the Shame – of Three Million Bengali Dead (The Wire)
• Artist defends Tate Britain’s display of ‘undeniably racist’ Whistler mural (The Guardian)
• Fostering Mathematical Brilliance in All Students (Medium)
• A 19th-century Indian queen’s photographic work has been obscured by history (Scroll.in)
• Why Muslim women cover their hair with a hijab and the importance of modesty in Islam (ABC News)
• The Equality Charters – Good Practice Initiatives (AdvanceHE)
•  PROF OLUFEMI TAIWO INTERRUPTS DECOLONISATION THEORY IN A NEW BOOK (Intervention)
• Gaza: a litmus test for the humanitarian sector’s commitment to decolonisation? (ODI)

February

• Dollar Street: Photos showing family in the world by income (Gapminder)
• Anti-Blackness and Colonial Detention (The Museum of British Colonialism)
• One ship, many stories: How a single, unglamorous, workaday merchant vessel tells the history of the 19th-century world in many violent chapters (aeon)
• Start here: Entangled Pasts, 1768–now (Royal Academy)
• Children’s book revolution: how East African women took on colonialism after independence (The Conversation)
• Sculpture of colonial officer’s ‘angry spirit’ returns to DRC as Dutch urge reckoning (The Guardian)
• Generative AI: a problematic illustration of the intersections of racialized gender, race and ethnicity (
  Association for Learning Development in Higher Education)
• Bernardine Evaristo on the role of the artist (Royal Academy of Arts)
• Untold Stories (Royal Academy of Arts)

January

• 4 must-read books from east Africa: from Tanzanian masters to Ugandan queens (The Conversation)
• There Can Be No Critique (Boston Review)
• “How do you like your truth?”: Celebrating Benjamin Zephaniah (Institute of Development Studies)
• British elites have long been a barrier to peace in the Middle East (openDemocracy)
• Entangled Islands exhibition explores the history of Irish people in the Caribbean – an expert review (The Conversation)
• Dozens of UK-linked vessels scrapped on South Asian beaches, despite ban (UNEARTHED)
• Heirs of Power: Slaveholding Families (Reuters)
• Invisible Windrush: how the stories of Indian indentured labourers from the Caribbean were forgotten (The Conversation)
• ‘Colonial mentality’: from the Caribbean to Kenya, Black people are challenging hair discrimination (The Guardian)
• Decolonising museums isn’t part of a ‘culture war’. It’s about keeping them relevant. (The Guardian)