Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Okey Ndibe talked about how Nigeria was created by the British as a colony and how the legacy of colonialism affects the cohesiveness of the ...

A new study shows how the legacy of colonialism is still deeply entrenched within scientific practice across the Caribbean archipelago. Rather than solely critiquing these practices, however, the ...

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe in his Portland, Oregon studio. Photo by Mark Mirocha. Courtesy of COMA Gallery In March of this year, Otis Quaicoe traveled to Australia on a research trip ahead of his solo ...

The areas of Indonesia where Dutch colonial rulers built a huge sugar-producing industry in the 1800s remain more economically productive today than other parts of the country, according to a study co ...

University of Cambridge research associate Harriet Mercer on how colonialism has fuelled global warming and made many communities more vulnerable to its effects Colonialism, the report asserts, has ...

Daniela Pila spent an hour after school one day scrubbing her brown skin with a bar of papaya soap, hoping it would turn white. She was 12 and had never really cared much about the color of her skin.

Since Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1952, dozens of nations colonized by the British Empire have gained independence and continue to rebuild their societies. Some critics of the royal family see ...

European settlement during the colonial era had a positive effect on today's per capita income, a study by William Easterly, a professor in NYU's Department of Economics, and Ross Levine, a professor ...

The consequences of colonialism are “still being felt to this day”, the UN Chef de Cabinet, Courtenay Rattray, told the Special Committee on Decolonisation on Friday. Speaking on behalf of ...

1. Intimate encounters: an archaeology of sexualities within colonial worlds / Eleanor Conlin Casella and Barbara L. Voss -- 2. Sexual effects: postcolonial and queer perspectives on the archaeology ...

Prior to the first world war, sprawling European empires collectively controlled roughly 80% of Earth’s landmass. Following WWII, that percentage drastically shrank, as colonies and occupied ...