A recent workshop explored how incarceration in the Global South follows very clearly and neatly laid down colonial patterns, even today.
The Government’s recent report on Race and Ethnic Disparities is a sorely missed chance at tackling institutional racism once and for all.
Celebrating linguistic diversity through poetic expression.
Monika Radojevic discusses the ‘casual racism’ around her half-Brazilian, half-Montenegrin ethnicity
What books do a 30-minute search via web and library ‘shelf test’ turn up, and how does an academic convenor of degree programmes respond?
Charis McCarter takes an honest look at how she’s secured a job in the sustainability field
Enrol onto our summer school and pick the brains of our academic specialists about the issues that interest you most
Although there is no law criminalising same-sex conduct, 90% of Indonesian LGBTI people have experienced violence
Is theatre a white invention? Thoughts on race and theatre
Why would anyone want to ‘decolonise the curriculum’, and what does this mean for academic study? Like the word ‘democracy’, ‘decolonisation’ can mean different things.
The #DerayatSOAS event last week was at full capacity, the crowd full of eager faces, myself included. We had come to listen to Deray Mckesson, an American civil rights activist and educator.
When Forest Whitaker sits down with Baroness Valerie Amos to discuss his true calling in life, and the importance of youth.
The MOBOs (Music Of Black Origin) celebrate turning 21 today at a big bash at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro, with performances from dancehall superstar Popcaan, the
A packed lecture theatre within the walls of SOAS University of London can hardly be described as a “tough room” for Wole Soyinka – the
Black History Month is an annual celebration of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. In the United Kingdom the event
Students and academics have been celebrating the 9th SOAS Taiwan Studies Summer School at SOAS University of London. The event runs over four days and
20th June is World Refugee Day. The day is dedicated to raising awareness of the plight of refugees worldwide. The event is recognised in over
