[:en] Alles voor de vrede – de brieven van Boston Band tussen 1757 en 1763: Who was Boston Band? In the oral tradition, he has been known and is highly valued as “progenitor”, resistance fighter, writing ex-slave and initiator of the peace. Boston arrived probably after the year 1749 in Suriname and died in 1766….
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Sandew Hira
[:en] Decolonizing the mind – een fundamentele kritiek op het wetenschappelijk kolonialisme: On October 25th, 2009 Sandew Hira entered into a debate with Prof. Dr. Gert Oostindie of Leiden University on the history of colonialism. The debate was organized by Vereniging Ons Suriname in Amsterdam. Hira argued that Oostindie was part of a movement, which he describes…
Artwell Cain (red.)
[:en] Tula – de slavenopstand van 1795 op Curaçao: On August 17th, 1795 a slave revolt began on Curaçao led by Tula, which ended in the execution of more than one hundred enslaved people. The extremely cruel execution of the leaders of the rebellion is engraved in the memory of many Antilleans. August 17th marks…
Djehuti Ankh-Kheru
[:en] 20 vragen en antwoorden over Malcolm X: Malcolm X is an icon of the Black movement. His personal history as a young man who came from a drugs environment and became an intellectual with sharp analysis of racism is remarkable. He is an inspiration to black people all over the world. As a Muslim he speaks…