Do not come here telling me that we should apologise for our 500 or 600 years in Angola
In a debate with Pacheco Pereira, André Ventura argues that there were positive aspects to colonisation.

Latest news and stories about colonialism in Portugal for expats and residents.
In a debate with Pacheco Pereira, André Ventura argues that there were positive aspects to colonisation.

What message are Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium—the largest agents of the trafficking of enslaved Africans—sending by abstaining from declaring this the greatest crime against humanity? Opinion by Maria Giulia Pinheiro.

The resolution approved by the United Nations recognising racialised slavery as the 'gravest crime against humanity' also calls for reparation measures. A professor from the University of San Diego suggests an 'atonement fund'.
INTERVIEW || In 'Travessias', a book published by Editorial Caminho, chronicles by Djamila Ribeiro written during a politically and socially turbulent period are brought together. She is one of the leading voices of contemporary black feminism in Brazil. 'There is a real risk of turning survival into destiny. When we romanticise resistance, we run the risk of naturalising violence'. Speaking to CNN Portugal, the Brazilian thinker reflects on colonial relations on both sides of the Atlantic. 'Portugal and Brazil do not resolve their ghosts. The decolonisation of thought is an unfinished process and very far from being resolved'. And on the need for Brazil, in a transforming Latin America, to 'relearn how to look to the side': a new generation of the Bolsonaro family may yet prove that progressive waves are, after all, 'ripples' that 'come and go'
