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Colonialism

British police examine suspects for the seven initiation cuts on the body that marked a member of the Mau Mau secret society in this November 1952 image. (Express Newspapers / Hulton Archive via Getty Images)

Colonial sins return to haunt former world powers in Kenya

NBC News' Ian Johnston, Nancy Ing and Ploy Bunlueslip
LONDON - It is a court case that could reverberate round the world: Three elderly Kenyans are suing the U.K. government for torture inflicted by the colonial regime during the African country's struggle for independence...
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Putting humans on display, Paris museum asks why

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PARIS (AP) - Curator Lilian Thuram, former football star and now anti-racism advocate, says in an AP interview that the exhibit made him reflect on his own prejudices about "the other."
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German museum returning skulls from racial experiments

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BERLIN (AP) - Namibian tribal leaders took possession Friday of the skulls of 20 of their countrymen, taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments...
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Dutch Royal House criticized for 'racist' painting

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AMSTERDAM (AP) - The "Golden Carriage" was given to Queen Wilhelmina from the people of Amsterdam as a gift in 1898...
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How Gadhafi's false 'Pan Africanism' failed

Babacar MBow
OPINION - Gadhafi must now face a reality Africans have been clamoring about for the past fifteen years: that he is an enemy of African unification, not a champion of it.
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Congo celebrates 50th anniversary as its people struggle to survive

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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Fabulous minerals. Magnificent music. Great cuisine. And a people still mired in violence and misery...
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Does 'Avatar' have racist undertones?

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Near the end of the hit film "Avatar," the villain snarls at the hero, "How does it feel to betray your own race?" Both men are white...
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theGrio Reflects: Ghana freed from colonial rule

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On the eve of President Obama’s visit to Ghana, theGrio looks back to when the country first celebrated its independence from British rule.

On March …

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