Benin is building a theme park to remember slavery – is history up for sale?
THE Marina Project is a vast memorial and tourist complex under construction in Ouidah, a coastal town in the Republic
Read moreTHE Marina Project is a vast memorial and tourist complex under construction in Ouidah, a coastal town in the Republic
Read moreTOBY STERLING and ANK KUIPERS PRIME Minister Mark Rutte apologised on behalf of the Dutch State for its historical role
Read moreTHE Dutch government will apologise later this year for its role in slavery during the nation’s colonial past, a member
Read moreSOUTH African artist Blessing Ngobeni first picked up a paintbrush during a nine-year stint in prison, drawing fellow inmates and
Read moreAYENAT MERSIE and CLEMENT UWIRINGIYIMANA BRITAIN’S Prince Charles expressed deep sorrow over slavery in a speech to Commonwealth leaders in
Read moreTHE discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide.
Read moreIN many parts of the world, museums are considering how to present history through different lenses, rather than just representing
Read moreAN advisory panel in the Netherlands has told the government to acknowledge that the 17th-19th century transatlantic slave trade amounted
Read moreMICHAEL EHIS ODIJIE IT is now two decades since reports of child slavery and child labour in cocoa cultivation in
Read moreTHE internal African slave trade was officially abolished in colonial Mali in 1905. But a form of slavery – called
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