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We are still living in a world of colonialism. Colonial relations still shape global trade, resource extraction, debt, migration, language, education, and the production of knowledge itself. If post-colonialism is more than just a theory, what are your micro-actions toward post-colonialism? How do you challenge colonial assumptions, power relations, or ways of knowing in your everyday life?

For me, post-colonialism isn’t just about addressing colonialism as a standalone force. I see colonialism as historically intertwined with other systems of power; patriarchy, capitalism, imperialism, and at times organized religion (thinking here of Weber’s *Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism*). These systems reinforce and reproduce one another in complex ways. Because of that, my own micro-actions are about learning colonial history, questioning whose knowledge is treated as legitimate, examining power relations that seem natural or inevitable, seeking our marginalized perspectives, and being conscious of how inequality is reproduced in everyday life. None of these actions are revolutionary on their own, but they feel like small ways of resisting structures that continue to shape the present. What do your own micro-actions toward post-colonialism look like?

We often look back at the anti-apartheid struggle through a highly simplified, harmonized narrative. This visual essay examines the critical turning point of March 21, 1960—the Sharpeville Massacre—not just as a tragedy, but as the specific catalyst that fundamentally altered the mechanics of South African resistance.

Based on academic research into the era, the video traces how the state's violent response to peaceful passbook protests effectively closed off all legal avenues for change, forcing the African National Congress (ANC) to make a sharp strategic pivot.

It’s an 11-minute deep dive utilizing primary trial records, archival footage, and Truth and Reconciliation Commission findings to keep the history both precise and honest. Would love to hear your thoughts on how this dual-track model of resistance compares to other 20th-century liberation movements.

Link: https://youtu.be/O0eUYapT8oA

https://www.jhiblog.org/2026/06/03/moving-words-shifting-visions-an-interview-with-leslie-james/

I'm writing my thesis on identity in Suriname, a former colony of the Netherlands and am looking for sources about lived experiences of people in postcolonial countries to compare/relate my found data to. Can anyone help me out?

62 artefacts are currently on their way to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) to distribute to the original communities from which they were taken.

But why does the Vatican have these artifacts in the first place and why is it that they’re giving them back in the worst way possible?

https://www.jhiblog.org/2026/04/22/radical-democracy-in-modern-indian-political-thought-disha-karnad-jani-interviews-tejas-parasher/

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I’ve been thinking about how “democracy” works (or doesn’t) in postcolonial countries in Africa. On the one hand, democracy is treated as the only legitimate model and on the other hand real democracy is in my opinion experienced nowhere in the world, and some countries even have nostalgia for past authoritarian regimes.

Do you think the problem lies in the specific way liberal/representative democracy has been imported and implemented, or in the concept of democracy itself as a political horizon in these contexts? Or another opinion ?

I am wondering which text or texts by Marcus Garvey you feel are most relevant and place him in the history of Black radical, anticolonial or decolonial thought?

I am looking for recommendations on best books about colonial alienation? Something light and short perhaps, i already have decolonising the mind which has some of that. Also would you say works of Edawrd Said have that topic on focus for those who studied him

Thanks in advance

https://www.jhiblog.org/2026/01/07/colonialism-unveiled-women-race-and-orientalism-in-the-conquest-of-algiers/

https://www.jhiblog.org/2026/01/28/harvests-of-liberation-disha-karnad-jani-interviews-ahmad-shokr/

Hello!

I’m currently reading Report to the Nation by Carter Revard, and it is reminding me of a piece of literature that I read a long time ago. All I can really remember is what is in the description above, but I have a bit of a feeling that the Thames was mentioned and that the character in the story was traveling on a boat. I can’t be sure that I am remembering the story correctly, so it may not have been an African author or character, but the general idea of claiming England as their own and renaming was definitely part of it.

If anyone knows the piece I’m thinking of I’d love to find it again so I can compare it to the piece that reminded me of it!

Thank you!