by Priska Dibiasi The Sussex Africa Centre and the Institute of Development Studies recently invited Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey from the University of Oxford to discuss her latest research at a joint event. She presented her findings at the event…
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Britain is Right to Celebrate the Abolition of Slavery, But Must Acknowledge Excesses of Empire
by Alan Lester As the UK celebrates its role in the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, it’s important to recognise that Britain’s humanitarianism was ultimately cut from the same cloth as imperial expansion. Britain’s Anti-Slavery Day should remind us…
Time to Throw out the Balance Sheet
by Alan Lester A bit of a departure from our standard project blog, this essay responds to the latest rehashing of the British Empire in the media (The Rhodes statue debate and a YouGov poll have both made the British…
Insights from Inside the Idomeni Refugee Camp
By Zoe Gilchrist The refugee crisis headlined the news all of last summer. I read article after article describing the conditions and the difficulties that refugees were facing in their attempt to escape war and/ or search for the opportunity…