Should the poor colonized States wait another 100 years to earn $1.25 per day? Colonialism is one of those subjects you’re not supposed to discuss in polite company – at least not north of the Mediterranean. Most people feel uncomfortable about it, and would rather pretend it didn’t happen. Debate around reparations is threatening because it upends the usual narrative of development Habib Battah shared this link and commented on it Jason Hickel. Nov.27, 2015 Who built Europe? “In the mainstream narrative of international development, peddled by institutions from the World Bank, the Monetary Fund to the UK’s Department of International Development, the