Britain’s East India Company ran a highly profitable, but brutally exploitative narco-state in the Gangetic plains and exported highly addictive opium to China.
Brazil is plagued by devastating natural disasters. Environmental and climate protection is not progressing for various reasons, and the country’'s colonial legacy also plays a role.
The lasting influence of Portuguese colonialism continues to hinder efforts to improve public welfare, address structural racism and protect the country’s rich ecosystems.
The story of the skull of the resistant Chief Mkwawa is an example of the arbitrariness with which the colonisers treated their subjects – even decades after their death.
One year ago, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier travelled to Tanzania to apologise for the atrocities committed by his country during its colonial rule. This was a first, but an apology alone is not enough.
To this day, colonial legacies mark many world regions. Former colonial powers thus still bear a responsibility for the fate of peoples they subjugated in the past.
The transatlantic slave trade had a devastating impact on Africa and affects the continent to this day. The fact that the Arab slave trade also took a terrible toll on millions of Africans is often overlooked.
In the late 19th century, several European powers took part in the “Scramble for Africa”, which was part of a global process of land seizure and colonisation.
