“There is no future in England’s dreaming,” warned the Sex Pistols.
Tag: Colonization
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Queen Elizabeth Leaves Behind a Radically Different Britain
She helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged.
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The Long Road Ahead for Colonial Reparations
Former colonies have felt increasingly empowered to demand compensation from European powers. But even the successful efforts look like exceptions so far.
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After Mocking France’s Literary Elite, a Fraught Invite Into the Club
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, a Senegal-born writer, has won high praise and top prizes from Paris’s insular publishing establishment. But the novelist wonders: Is it an endorsement or “a way to silence me”?