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No more Rhodesias: renaming Africa
From Zimbabwe’s provinces to Mali’s streets, nations are casting off colonial labels in their quest for true independence and dignity in a revival of the pan-African spirit, writes ROGER McKENZIE
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
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As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
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ZIMBABWE’S government has decided to rename the country’s provinces and rid them of colonial names.
This is the latest move by African countries to rid themselves of the yoke placed around their necks by the former colonial rulers through a process of Africanisation.
It follows the renaming of around 25 streets and public squares in the Malian capital, Bamako, that honoured French colonial administrators.
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