Decolonization can’t just be a metaphor
Decolonizing museums requires more than knowledge exchange and lending back stolen artifacts.
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Greer Valley
Greer Valley is a South African visual artist.
Museums as Sites of Struggle
The exhibition ‘Goede Hoop: South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600,’ in Amsterdam, is like making your way through a hall of mirrors.
Buying, Swapping and Selling domestic workers
The blinding privilege of South Africa’s ‘white’ middle and upper class which has found new means of subjugation: online community groups.
It’s Not Just About Cecil John Rhodes
Statues of icons of colonialism continue to exist in their visibly unaltered state throughout South Africa’s major cities.
What’s the matter with … Stellenbosch University
Legacies of colonialism and apartheid are etched into social dynamics of the town in the way its inhabitants occupy public space. The same goes for the university.