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This allegation has been rejected by Russia as just another baseless piece of propaganda intended to embarrass the competent authorities in Moscow. Normally it is not the policy of the New African ...
Bissessar's Bihar roots during his Trinidad and Tobago visit. A century ago, many Indians, especially from Bihar, were taken to colonies as indentured laborers. These 'Girmityas' faced harsh ...
Author Russell Shorto, in his book “Taking Manhattan,” described the negotiations between Dutch Director General Peter ...
Multatuli’s writings, she said, have been translated into more than 40 languages. The VU symposium focused on Max Havelaar’s translations in a number of countries in Asia, Europe, and Africa. A recent ...
The Dutch government agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in February, and the official handover ceremony will take place on 21 June. British colonial troops originally stole the artefacts in ...
Africa Dutch return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in colonial restitution June 19, 2025 Nigeria received 119 Benin Bronzes from the Netherlands on Tuesday (June 17), marking one of the largest ...
Trump strongly criticized Ramaphosa’s governing of South Africa, claiming there has been a “genocide” of white farmers.
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, when 29 nations from Asia and Africa gathered in Indonesia for a historic anti-colonial conference that was meant to chart a new ...
In the new school of painting, artists would sometimes travel to the Dutch colonies. For example, Frans Post travelled to Dutch Brazil and painted the sugar plantations and mills.
In 1666, after gaining experience in numerous battles with the Zeeland navy (and witnessing the horrific death of his father, torn in two by a cannon shot), he was appointed Admiral of Zeeland —the ...
Dutch officials' racism toward their own citizens of Arab and Muslim background is in tune with their settler-colonial history in the Americas, South Africa, and Indonesia - whose white settler ...