In a garish example of anti-democratic, anti-West, collective state hypocrisy, leaders from the BRICS bloc representing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meeting in South Africa over three days last week invited four Muslim states and
The case for slavery reparations seems to be growing louder every day. This week, indigenous representatives from 12 Commonwealth countries called on King Charles to begin the process of paying reparations. The King has personally expressed sorrow for the suffering of slaves and Buckingham Palace has said that it is taking the issue of reparations ‘profoundly seriously’.
Abdulrazak Gurnah vividly captures colonial and post-colonial histories of abuse and dispossession, but also startling acts of reclamation and renewal.