World Earth Day: Colonialism’s role in the overexploitation of natural resources

Colonialists saw “new” territories as places with unlimited resources to exploit, with little consideration for the long-term impacts

Mining push continues despite water crisis in Neskantaga First Nation and Ontario’s Ring of Fire

It is exactly the foundation that Canada is built on. It is one of the ways that colonialism not only survives, but thrives

Literature Nobel: Zanzibari Abdulrazak Gurnah declared winner for works on colonialism, refugee experience

2021 Literature Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s works feature the cosmopolitan complexity of Africa’s Swahili coast as well as its …

Tracing the history of farming across Africa gives clues to low production outputs

The focus must move from what the developed world dictates to what Africa needs. This requires countries developing production systems and …

Medical volunteers in rural Zambia: Learning from attitudes to angels and vampires

Presence of outsiders has often produced powerful anxieties. White medical doctors in central Africa were often identified as vampires, and …

Colourising conservation is a work in progress

It is up to us to ensure that human diversity is represented fairly in our endeavours to protect biodiversity

This is no apology: Congo activists on King Philippe’s words

‘Regret’ is not the right choice of word; and yes, Belgium should pay reparations to the Congo, they say

‘Hong Kong’s lost tigers show us a species once gone, cannot return’

Down To Earth speaks to journalist John Saeki about his upcoming book on the lost tigers of Hong Kong