
What will it take to decolonise Belgium’s universities?
“Justice is like a train that is nearly always late,” reads one of the signs from a protest condemning the death of a Black student from KU Leuven
“Justice is like a train that is nearly always late,” reads one of the signs from a protest condemning the death of a Black student from KU Leuven
It’s just past four o’clock in the morning, and I’m cycling through the still, damp air of a summer night in Bosnia. I’m heading southeast from the Croatian
Julian Sanchez was in a hurry. He still had to buy a pair of cheap black trousers. He would wear his black leather shoes—as required by the dress code—but didn’t want to ruin his only suit.
In the fall of 2020, Selemon (not his real name) received an email announcing that a marathon race would be held in the Czech Republic. As an Ethiopian-born long-distance runner living in Europe, Selemon had been training throughout the pandemic. Like many of his peers who rely on prize money and appearances for a living, he’d been struggling. His bank account was drying up, and his resolve was weakening too. Here, finally, was an opportunity.
According to my therapist, I suffer from impostor syndrome. But what if, when it comes to my citizenship, I actually am a fraud?
Studying postcolonialism at a higher academic level in the U.K. has its own set of ethical and moral trappings. Broadly, post colonial studies refers to the study of