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Published on: 26 November 2021

Written by: Kareem Smith All articles by Kareem Smith

Barbados has removed the Queen as its head of state, as it begins a new national journey to remove any lingering...

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Published on: 29 September 2020

Written by: Laura Basu All articles by Laura Basu

Written by: Freddie Stuart All articles by Freddie Stuart

With Black Lives Matter protests raging around the world, the latest ourVoices documentary asks how we can build an...

Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion

Published on: 30 July 2020

Written by: Melanie Newton All articles by Melanie Newton

Suggesting that ‘the uncrowned King of Scotland’ worked to end slavery, rather to entrench it, is irresponsible...

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Published on: 8 June 2020

Written by: Adam Ramsay All articles by Adam Ramsay

The UK has honoured many slavers, plunderers and perpetrators of massacres. Here’s a list of some more candidates...

Published in: ourEconomy: Opinion

Published on: 29 November 2019

Written by: Julia Schöneberg All articles by Julia Schöneberg

It’s time to abandon development and think about postdevelopment instead.

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Published on: 5 December 2013

Written by: Geoffrey Bindman All articles by Geoffrey Bindman

There have been laws about slavery since the birth of our legal system. Whilst they might need to be tidied up, the...

Published in: openDemocracyUK

Published on: 24 October 2013

Written by: Geoffrey Heptonstall All articles by Geoffrey Heptonstall

For centuries, much of Europe was integrated into a vast African empire. Yet we refuse to fully understand our...

Why was a warlord allowed to sue a British journalist?