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RACISTS vandalised the grave of an enslaved African man in an apparent “retaliation attack” yesterday after protesters pulled down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol.
The headstone of Scipio Africanus, who lived in the city in the 18th century, was smashed and a message scrawled on a flagstone nearby.
It read: “Put Colston’s statue back or things will really heat up.”
BOB NEWLAND appreciates an important contribution to the debate about how slavery helped to build the wealth of Western companies and states
ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
SUE TURNER is appalled by the story of the only original colonising family to still own a plantation in the West Indies