Browsing: United Kingdom

Nizam Mamode, a retired British National Health Service transplant surgeon who worked in Gaza with the British charity, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), shocked UK MPs…

Despite growing calls for reparations for slavery, the UK refuses to accept that it’s high time to pay up. So much is clear from recent remarks…

‘Historical grievance grifting.’ That’s how Talk TV host Julia Hartley-Brewer describes former British colonies’ calls for the United Kingdom to pay slavery reparations. In this reaction…

Like many colonised and enslaved territories, Jamaica fronted strong resistance against imperialism. Listen to legendary Jamaican singer Buju Banton explain the role the Maroons played. The…

When Nigerian journalist David Hundeyin received a commission from a UK NGO to write about Nigeria’s newest and biggest oil refinery in the context of climate…

The racist, Islamophobic, and anti-migrant riots in England and the British-occupied North of Ireland have exposed that the rot runs right up to the top. In…

Recently, the UK passed the Safety of Rwanda Bill. It declared the African country a safe place for asylum seekers to be sent while their asylum…

On this day two years ago, the 64th US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, died aged 84. Her legacy in Africa and the Middle East is…

A wealthy white British Conservative Party donor’s name has been plastered across headlines for making racially charged remarks about a Black British MP. Frank Hester, 58,…

​Rwanda is less than a tenth the size of the UK but is home to about 14-million people – that’s almost one-fifth of the UK’s population.…