Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Legacies of Colonialism

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A powerful collection of events offers different perspectives on modern civilisation and our supposedly post-colonial world.

About Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Legacies of Colonialism

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Through history, commentary and creative responses, these authors track imperial trajectories that implicate almost every continent across the globe. Feminist authors challenge perceptions of the African continent based in colonial prejudices, economists interrogate the financial gains of the slave trade, historians examine countries colonised in shockingly recent history and more.

Jazz Money & Andrés N Ordorica: The Language of Protest and Love
Saturday 13 August 18:15 - 19:15

William Dalrymple: The Privatised Imperialists
Monday 15 August 20:30 - 21:30

Scholastique Mukasonga: Mother Courage
Thursday 18 August 16:15 - 17:15

Raymond Antrobus: Drawing Meaning From the Spaces
Friday 19 August 12:15 - 13:15

Abdulrazak Gurnah: Migration, the Story of Our Times
Saturday 20 August 19:30 - 20:30

Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams: Whose Story is it Anyway?
Sunday 21 August 15:30 - 16:30

Thomas Harding & Kojo Koram: What Was Taken?
Tuesday 23 August 13:00 - 14:00

Black History Walking Tour with Lisa Williams
Tuesday 23 August 17:00 - 18:30

Howard W French: Why Africa is at the Centre of History
Saturday 27 August 10:30 - 11:30

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Dipo Faloyin & Howard W French: Africa's Rich Diversity
Sunday 28 August 11:30 - 12:30

Sabrina Mahfouz: Notes on the British Empire
Sunday 28 August 19:30 - 20:30

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: Dismantling Family Histories
Sunday 28 August 20:15 - 21:15

The Last Colony: A Performance on Restoring an Island to its Rightful Owners
Sunday 28 August 20:30 - 21:30

Philippe Sands: Towards a Less Brutal World
Monday 29 August 11:30 - 12:30

Tsitsi Dangarembga & Esi Edugyan: The Past, Present and Future of Blackness
Monday 29 August 16:30 - 17:30

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