International Studies · Boston College
Was colonialism good for the world, or did it make life worse for people who lived under it? This is a live debate among people who are still trying to come to terms with their colonial pasts. In Oxford and South Africa, the Rhodes must Fall movement opposes monuments and romantic portrayals of Cecil Rhodes, the British miner and prime minister who oversaw the brutal treatment of black South Africans. Citizens of Kenya have sued the British government for reparations for what they suffered in detention camps after the Mau Maurebellion of the 1950s. And the Indian writer and statesman, Shas
