DECOLONISING IN THE NEWS

2024

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)

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)