Colonialism
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Taiwan, Hong Kong & Hawaii share history of Colonial occupation, sub-humanization of natives, as rich whites enjoyed 'paradise', used us to plunder China. Hawaii had the highest li...
In 1380, the University of Paris had 10 000 students & the Royal Library 900 manuscripts. The University of Timbuktu: 25 000 students & 400 000+ manuscripts. Yet in Europe, textb...
Don't tell an old central man/woman that umekuja "gishagi. (Thread). During the emergency, colonialists rounded up everyone into communal villages (icagi). Men would go daily to d...
An academic study by @JasonHickel estimates British colonialism caused 165 million deaths in India from 1880-1920, while stealing trillions of dollars of wealth The global capital...
I am unable to understand the relevance. I can just state where I see value in the entire Decolonisation/Coloniality and all such discourse. That is my journey ofcourse. Nothing p...
Dutch East Indies, aka Indonesia, was the first Asian team to qualify for the World Cup (1938). Here's one of my favourite photos because of who's NOT there: their captain, Achmad...
African Kings Who Were Exiled To Seychelles For Their Bravery In Fighting European Colonialists. By the 19th century, after the Berlin conference, there was great European hunger...
In 1880, former Confederate general, Grand Dragon of the KKK & U.S Senator John Tyler Morgan reached an agreement with King Leopold of Belgium to get the U.S to recognize Leopold'...
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The 1857 rising in UP and Bihar was crushed with the aid of loyal Punjab. The Bombay army did the same in Rajasthan and MP. Loyal Punjab was rewarded with increased recruitment,...
I am rewriting my earlier tweet threads about British complicity in creation of Bengal famine. This has references to the literature and primary sources. Britain was carried by Ind...
Few know (and I didnt) that zamindari was invented by Lord Cornwallis. Prior to that people did not "own" land as we understand it today. The evil zamindars one sees in 1970s bolly...
A quote on colonolized Muslims before the first world war: "As the British and French drew their empires into the European war, they were forced to examine the loyalties of the Mu...
A new study by Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel with Australian, Spanish and UK universities argues British Colonialism killed 100 million Indians. The study notes 'this is more t...
Story of the Battle of Kano (1903) How the British took over Kano A thread 🧵 Retweet to educate someone https://t.co/LzxdtAW2jf
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 1896. Ethiopians trained Lions to capture the soldiers of the enemy and fought side by side with Cheetahs, bees, and lions. Ethiopian soldiers with their fighting l.ion...
After reading the detailed discussion on the nature and origins of the Protestant Reformation that gave birth to secularism and the concept of nation-state after the Peace Of Westp...
Pele is coming for y'all military & colonizer resorts. The US' been bombing Hawaii for a century, made an island uninhabitable (Kahoolawe). You stage, train, & launch most US wars...
AFRICA WAS DESTROYED WHEN ARABS AND EUROPEANS FIRST STEPPED FOOT ON HER SOIL. "All of the countries named as Underdeveloped in the world are exploited by others. And underdevelopm...
While I get back my original handle @GemsOfIndology Here is a thread on Inquisitions method used by Spain (1478–1834) and Portuguese (1536-1821) in their Colonies Portuguese Inq...
Islamicizing psychology: "Psychology continues to be exported from the U.S. to the rest of the world, with little or no serious attention given to the appropriateness of what is b...
As an #indigenous artist, the Unjust Transition to AI-Art under capitalism, where megacorps get more mega by mass-firing working creators mirrors the Unjust Transition to renewable...
On this day in 1953, the British Royal Air Force began ‘Operation Mushroom’, a two-year period of aerial bombings, dropping nearly 6 million bombs on Kenya to crush the Mau-Mau ant...
The Great Famine in India of 1876–78 is one of the most unacknowledged cases of British colonial genocide. With a death toll of at least 10 million, the famine covered an area of 6...