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Shoppers in Jakarta’s Chinatown in February: Covid-19 has slowed down business.

Discrimination

Indonesia’s ethnic resentments

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by Edith Koesoemawiria
Protesters march in the Minneapolis suburb where, on 11 April 2021, a police officer killed Daunte Wright, a young Black man.

Blog

Anti-racists’ two-front struggle

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by Hans Dembowski

Tribalism

Tribalism hides the gap between rich and poor

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Pursuing geostrategic interests, western powers are still involved in former colonies’ politics: Emmanuel Macron arriving in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, in June 2020 to attend a meeting of the regional organisation G5 Sahel.

International relations

Postcolonial perspectives must be taken seriously

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by Myriell Fußer
by Adrian Schlegel
by Tanja Matheis
by Julia Fritzsche
by Florian Vitello
Young Kenyans go to school, but employment opportunities remain rare.

Identity politics

Why Kenya’s president has fallen out with his deputy

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Indigenous organisations can mobilise masses in Bolivia: people in La Paz protested against the construction of a road through an Amazonian nature reserve in 2011.

Identities

Pulling the levers of power in Bolivia

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by Ulrich Goedeking
Monument commemorating the opium wars in Guangzhou agglomeration.

Global affairs

Painting the big picture

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by Hans Dembowski
On 7 June, protesters in Bristol pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and later threw it into the harbour.

Development discourse

Unsustainable western exceptionalism

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visiting Washington in 1949: US President Harry Truman declared “development” of “underdeveloped” countries to be the goal of foreign policy during the Cold War.

“Development”

False promises, questionable term

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by Aram Ziai
by Julia Schöneberg
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