Colonialism
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The roots of academic irrationality
How ideology came to dominate the intellect — and rigidity subordinated scepticism
A Boy’s Own book of anti-colonialism
Could a progressive historian really write in praise of African slave-traders?
Bringing the Bacchae to the bush
Chula finds a cultural confidence in Malawi that is lacking in the contemporary West
The British empire, for good and ill
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning offers the first serious counterblast against the hysterical orthodoxy
A gift to pimps and traffickers
South Africa still, in many ways, operates as an apartheid state
Britain’s archipelago of shame
The UK’s treatment of Chagossians doesn’t amount to a crime against humanity