colonialism Archives - The Geecologist

Go, Went, Gone

Before Richard moved to the outskirts with his wife, they’d lived in an apartment, a mere two...

Ama was an oracle. The realization came to my mother late in life, when her monthly bleedings...

It’s worth contrasting the history of Australia with that of another colonial experiment—the US....

In the 1770s, a talented black man – born a slave, mid-Atlantic, on a ship – whose friends...

A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers...

In the other room, Beulah started whimpering in her sleep. The child had night terrors. They came...

I left the Rio Negro and went on south to Port Madryn. A hundred and fifty-three Welsh colonists...

The men continued sipping the wine in silence for a while. In the trees, the birds were calling...

“On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon. In the months...

Before 1066, the issue troubling the inhabitants of what is now Britain was not ‘Will I get a...

“Abame has been wiped out,” said Obierika. “It is a strange and terrible story....

For over a century the Portuguese had policed the maritime trade of the Arabian sea and, although...