Swart Donkey

The way we experience the world is, at best, an overlay on reality. A tool to engage with something we don't have the tools to fully un...

  Fork 'n  Cheese Building National Identities is a relatively recent human past time. But don't tell anyone.  Tartiflette  ...

The Islamic Golden Age  began just over a century after the death of its prophet. The Abbasid Dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle. ...

The idea of continents as separate land masses with different identities is very recent. The Fertile Crescent is a connected area t...

One challenge we have with helping solve the problems we can see is an implicit superiority. Some justified Colonialism as a ' Civilisi...

Moscow is the largest city entirely on the European continent. It has 13.2 million people in the city limits, and 17.8 million in the urban...

Wifi is not a product of colonialism. The Renaissance was more of a Naissance  as trade, travel and communication brought Northern Europe...

People seldom believe what they are doing is wrong, and do it anyway. The evil villain doing evil with a cackle while stroking his cat. The...

A civilising mission sees progress as directional rather than relational. It views learning as a ladder rather than a holding of hands. It...

Most of the history I learned at school about Africa was from a European perspective. I later learnt the Age of European Discovery a...

Ecumene is a term for the Known World. Before the idea of continents, the words that became Europe, Africa and Asia were just areas ...

There is some irony to which bits of the world we consider Europe. The first Christian State in the world was Armenia . 'European ...