#Colonial

josie sparrow

ofthesparrows

what i’d like to do today is to move on from this whole sordid & disappointing affair & focus on @NewSocialistUK’s actual work. so here’s a little thread of some

Suhayl | سهيل

suhayllo

It’s v important as we engage in discourse on decolonization to realize the coloniality that dominates hair politics. In slave (colonized) societies black folk hair would be shaven as an

Fidato

tequieremos

The French President @EmmanuelMacron has said that he has no repentance for colonial abuses in Algeria. When French invaded Algeria in 1830, they killed 825,000 Algerians from 1830-1875. The indigenous

Wax Print Film

WaxPrintFilm

This article by @clarespencer for @BBCWorld came out a few days ago and as sparked a lot of debate, you can read it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/4fq4hrgxvn/wax-printIt features some heavyweights within the

Rizwan

Rizwow

On #IqbalDay2020, I want everyone to read the last chapter of Imran Khan's book."Today, very few children are familiar with Iqbal.... what he said remainds profoundly relevant to us and

Anthony Paletta

PalettaAnthony

The imprint of the Cold War always interesting in these things specific moments also reflected.. it seems that that Mogadishu stop became an Addis Ababa stop during the Ogaden War/Mengistu

নিবেদিতা

NiveditaNarayan

"Bongo Jiboner Ongo." #ThreadBoroline was launched in Kolkata by Gourmohan Dutta in 1929. To strengthen the Indian populace economically, the Bengali merchant established GD Pharmaceuticals, a company that aimed to

read ‘discourse on colonialism’ by aimé césaire!

queersocialism

to teach white people to be ‘antiracist’ is to teach white people to betray everything they’ve ever known about their very existence, the world order, and life itself; it is

Royal Suitor

royal_suitor

“The backdrop for many of the Sussexes’ video messages and calls, it is the place where the global spotlight this fortnight has been firmly trained as the couple has made

Nodutdol | 노둣돌

nodutdol

Today we celebrate the Korean written language, Chosungul 조선글 in DPRK & Hangeul 한글 in ROK. Sejong the Great of the Chosun dynasty sought to expand literacy to the masses

Dov, wall collapse enthusiast

lituainianach

This is technically correct, if you consider that "the majority of people living in the USSR" means Russians.Who had absolutely no right of input into whether Ukraine or Belarus should

Indian History

IndianHistory0

One thing I never understood as a kid was why no one questioned the sheer gall of western nations(who had industrialized using mercantilism & generous use of protectionist policy/monopolies via

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radicaltheory

“The key to understanding Amerika is to see that it was a chain of European settler colonies that expanded into a settler empire. To go back and understand the lives

IndiGenous

PatExPatri

Mohandas distorted ‘fight for dharma’ to ‘non-violence’ & kept nation apologetic. Clueless #colonised Mediocre Morons made mascot & called him Mahatama #GandhiJi #Gandhi attained personal sainthood at cost of civilisation.

Ogechi (Oge ome ego 1)

NwaanyiOwerre

Long before the incursion of Europeans into Igboland, we had our own system of Igbo alphabets called NSIBIDI which we used for a wide range of graphic communications. However, NSIBIDI

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

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