colonialism

From Botany Bay to the Flying Boats

weird colonial propaganda in Australian schools

Wherefore, qua, bonum: decrypting Indian legalese

A colonial hangover, or unrealised literary dreams

The National Monument(s) at Rashayya

Contested pasts embraced in a Lebanese citadel

Tall Man Out

A cultural history of Satyajit Ray’s height

All Your Black Messiahs

radically reimagining the celebration of blackness

Colonialism walks into a chop bar

February 2016: I have gone to a chop bar and bought fufu with what soup I cannot remember.

Sing us a Catholic song in Nigerian tongues

The tune was simple enough, but to pronounce the words with the correct Izzi intonation was grueling.

Out of Africa

Claire’s father Sam Simmons would be there, and they would spend the next hour or two quaffing Castle beer, smoking and playing snooker in the dim, curtained rooms adjoining the bar.

Slove You, N.Y.C.

Giving the people what they want, Slav-style