Every day we are hearing more horror stories about the cruel brutality and merciless slaughter of women and children, at the same time as whole villages and towns are being destroyed by Russians in Ukraine.
Yet in reading the recently released issue of Jahazi entitled ‘Reclaiming our Cultural Heritage’, one finds that Russians are no worse than were the European powers who came to conquer and colonise Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Whether one is talking about Germans, British, French, or Portuguese, European colonisers all slaughtered families, destroyed whole villages and wreaked havoc on people’s cultures.