Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’
Wrought iron process that drove UK success was appropriated from black metallurgists, records suggest An innovation that propelled Britain to become the world’s leading iron...
Category : Colonialism
Germany’s return of sacred Kogi masks to Colombia may have health risks
Wooden artefacts dating from 15th century and bought from indigenous people were treated with pesticides while in museum Germany has returned two wooden masks of...
UN representatives criticise Germany over reparations for colonial crimes in Namibia
Rapporteurs also chastise the German and Namibian governments for excluding Herero and Nama minorities from talks dealing with the mass murder of their ancestors UN...
Chagos islanders must get full reparations for forced exile, says NGO
Human Rights Watch also demands trial for ‘appalling colonial crime’ of expulsion – and continuing ill treatment – of Chagossians The UK should pay full...
Descendants of Namibia’s genocide victims call on Germany to ‘stop hiding’
Herero and Nama people demand direct talks and take Namibian government to court for accepting reparations on their behalf for 1904-1908 killings Descendants of victims...
‘Shot two zebras. Played tennis’: Scarborough museum confronts legacy of colonial past
Discovery of stuffed animals from central Africa and recordings from ‘human zoo’ inspires exhibition It was when part of a Scarborough museum was being redeveloped...
Germany returns 21 Benin bronzes to Nigeria – amid frustration at Britain
Artefacts looted in 19th century by UK soldiers and sold on, with many more still held by the British Museum Twenty-one precious artefacts that were...
Campaigners celebrate changing of colonial street names in Berlin
Street and square in north-east of city renamed in tribute to figureheads who resisted forced rule in Africa Campaigners who have fought for decades for...
Forgotten photos show how Kenyan archaeologists unearthed secrets of their own country
Exhibitions in UK and Africa rewrite history by celebrating discoveries of overlooked black excavators in colonial era The photographs are rare, the subject choice unusual,...
Barbados plans to make Tory MP pay reparations for family’s slave past
Richard Drax reported to have visited Caribbean island for meeting on next steps, including plans for former sugar plantation The government of Barbados is considering...
