Category Archives: South Africa

Britain’s Crown Jewels: Time to decolonize, repatriate!

Helena · 12:44 pm · 09/24/2022 · Imperialisms, India, Project 500 Years, Role of the West, South Africa

I am already looking forward to the coronation of Charles Windsor, to presumably be held during peak tourist season in 2023? This gives us enough time to do more research into the provenance of the obscenely extensive holdings of the House of Windsor (known until a speedy 1917 name-change as the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha)… and … Continue reading Britain’s Crown Jewels: Time to decolonize, repatriate! →

Exploring imperial decline with Kapuscinski and Farrusco

Helena · 2:36 pm · 05/27/2020 · Anti-imperialism, Imperialisms, Settler colonialism, South Africa, World order

Alert readers will recall that last week I wrote about re-reading Ryszard Kapuscinski’s amazing book Another Day of Life, which is about the 1975 collapse of Portugal’s empire in Africa. This was part of my current investigation of the phenomenon of imperial decline, in general. The collapse of Portugal’s worldwide (mainly African) empire is an … Continue reading Exploring imperial decline with Kapuscinski and Farrusco →