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Trio of professors win Nobel economics prize for work on post-colonial wealth

Three US-based professors, including two UK-born academics, have been awarded this year’s Nobel prize in economics, for showing how the political and economic systems introduced by colonisers can determine...
Colonialism

Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says

A 20-year genetic investigation of the remains of Christopher Columbus has turned conventional historical wisdom on its head...
Colonialism

UK auction house cancels ‘disrespectful’ sale of shrunken heads and skulls

A British auction house has withdrawn from sale human and ancestral remains, including shrunken heads and skulls, from...
Africa

Britain to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius ending years of dispute

The UK has agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending years of bitter dispute over...

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