Settler colonialism refers to a specific form of colonialism where settlers from a foreign country establish permanent communities and exert control over the indigenous population and their land. It ...

The standard version of colonialism, explains Adam Kirsch in his provocative and important new book, involves a relatively small group of colonists—mostly colonial administrators, merchants, and ...

More accurate data is readily available for Germany, which only became a colonial power at a very late stage. In the case of Germany, it is quite clear that the majority of the colonies were a ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

Many of the people who invoke Fanon don’t seem to have read his extraordinarily prescient The Wretched of the Earth, and, more particularly, its chapter “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness”.

In this Q&A, Human Rights Watch examines the application of the right to reparation to redress past and present harms stemming from colonial atrocities, including enslavement,[1] systemic racial ...

Changes in climate have an impact on African economies. Wikimedia Commons/Flickr The experience of colonialism led to economies and societies being re-arranged in ways that have had far-reaching ...