#Colony

Nicky Woolf

NickyWoolf

Following the brouhaha between Stewart Lee and @TomTugendhat, I'm going to tell you the story of my own family name. A thread: First, some background. Lee wrote his Observer column

France Diplomacy🇫🇷

francediplo_EN

Africa doesn’t have a ‘French problem’ and France is not afraid to confront its past. African states are sovereign and make their own decisions. THREAD https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/1275383100328022018 2./ Quite apart from

tea, policy school dropout (they/them)

ColonizedLocal

Currently Reading:“A majority of planters and officials believed that maintaining racial distinctions toward free-colorees was vital to preserving slavery in Saint-Domingue” “A 1767 ministerial directive declared that, for those whose

Meenakshi Sharan

meenakshisharan

As if starving Hindus committing suicide in #Pakistan #lockdown wan’t enough, this afternoon Jhuggis of poor #Hindus in Saeedaabaad, Dadu, Sindh were burnt!Who did that & why @ImranKhanPTI @shoaib100mph @SAfridiOfficial ?@harbhajan_singh

Emilie Takayama 髙山エミリー

eytakamou

I came across an industrialist named Tadasaburo Yamamoto (1860-1927), who is the man portrayed in this well-known caricature of the nouveau riche. He was also known as the Tiger Lord

Defense News Nigeria

DefenseNigeria

When will Nigerians learn that the United States no longer see Nigeria as an ally. The US has blocked Okonjo Iweala’s candidacy conveniently citing her inexperience in trade, but we

eRIPsa

eripsa

(Thread) A few years ago I came up with a system of distributed governance designed to systematize the consensus process at global scales. The proposal was called Polytopolis: a city

Mikko Toivanen

aruinedmap

Looking over some recent work on history of #tourism and #travelwriting I’m once again struck by the question: can you really write about 19thC tourism without thinking seriously about empire

Zack Stanton

zackstanton

Walking through downtown DC this morning. I'll tweet through some of what I see.Smashed window at the FedEx on 14th and K. Multiple smashed windows at the Citibank at Vermont

Texas Tech LDPsi

techldpsi

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Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

The Natives Land Act of 1913 was passed on this day. 7% of arable land was allocated to Black people, the rest was allocated to white people. The Free State

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Nishhfishh

Tracing the iconic 'Pagri Sambhaal 'movement on the day of the #FarmersProtest - Thread Born on January 23, 1881, Ajit Singh was the younger of brother of Sardar Kishan Singh

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ranbooenderian

my love hate relationship with voltrona shiro literally had the worst time as a paladin. he got kidnapped multiple times, was brainwashed for a bit, and was even replaced

Jamwanda

Jamwanda2

DO COLONIAL HISTORIES MATTER TODAY? For the less politically literate - usually richly clustered in opposition honeycombs - short answer is: THEY DON’T!!! Those don’t concern or bother me; they

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

Congo before and after colonization. In the period from 1885 to 1908, many well-documented atrocities were perpetrated in the Congo Free State which, at the time, was a colony under

Shazaf Fatima

Shazaffatima

It's been six years since I arrived in this country. It now feels like home. I no longer dream of Karachi or even miss it. But my heart aches when