Category Archives: Settler colonialism

The unbearable legacies of settler colonialism

Helena · 2:42 pm · 07/03/2020 · Algeria, Anti-imperialism, Black Lives Matter, Ethics, Imperialisms, Settler colonialism, World order

Today, an Air Algerie plane conveyed to the Houari Boumedienne International Airport in Algiers the mortal remains of Sheikh Ahmed Bouziane, commander of a native-Algerian force overpowered by the invading French in Zaatcha, Algeria, in November 1849, and 23 other members of the defeated Algerian defense force. According to this account by Madjid Zerrouky in … Continue reading The unbearable legacies of settler colonialism →

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 →