British colonial rule in Nigeria lasted for decades, shaping the country’s political, economic, and social structures. Today, several places across Nigeria still bear the marks of this era, from ...
Anne Irfan receives funding from the British Academy to research the origins of international refugee and mobility policies. Israel’s parliament has voted to significantly shrink the power of the ...
Colonialism is closely related to imperialism. Imperialism is the policy or ethos of using power and influence to control ...
British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of ...
India’s decision to fly its flag at half-mast for Queen Elizabeth, someone who was also a colonial ruler until her last breath, is antithetical to the country’s post-1947 identity. Britain’s Queen ...
Queen Elizabeth II’s death has garnered a spectrum of feelings around the world about her life, legacy and the monarchy. When she took the throne in 1952, more than a quarter of the world's population ...
The death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8 has brought back memories of how the British colonial administration used chiefs and headmen to maintain control over Kenya. Discussions with the ...
The state House of Representatives on Wednesday offered absolution, though pointedly not exoneration, to the nine women and two men hanged for witchcraft in 17th-century Connecticut, a dark and ...