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
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Netherlands apologises for role of Dutch state in slavery
TOBY STERLING and ANK KUIPERS PRIME Minister Mark Rutte apologised on behalf of the Dutch State for its historical role
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Dutch government to apologise for role in colonial-era slavery
THE Dutch government will apologise later this year for its role in slavery during the nation’s colonial past, a member
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Prison life, slavery inspires South African artist at contemporary expo
SOUTH African artist Blessing Ngobeni first picked up a paintbrush during a nine-year stint in prison, drawing fellow inmates and
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Prince Charles express sorrow over slavery
AYENAT MERSIE and CLEMENT UWIRINGIYIMANA BRITAIN’S Prince Charles expressed deep sorrow over slavery in a speech to Commonwealth leaders in
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Science and race in South Africa: lessons from ‘old bones in boxes’
THE discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide.
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Nigerian museums must tell stories of slavery with more complexity and nuance
IN many parts of the world, museums are considering how to present history through different lenses, rather than just representing
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Panel advises Dutch government to apologise for slavery
AN advisory panel in the Netherlands has told the government to acknowledge that the 17th-19th century transatlantic slave trade amounted
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OPINION: We must understand the context of cocoa farming to stop child labour in West Africa
MICHAEL EHIS ODIJIE IT is now two decades since reports of child slavery and child labour in cocoa cultivation in
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Mali fails to face up to the persistence of slavery
THE internal African slave trade was officially abolished in colonial Mali in 1905. But a form of slavery – called
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