Culture

Learning about slavery and Keti Koti as a foreigner in the Netherlands

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Header image (c) Thomas Blanc De La Carrere, 2025Trigger warning: this article contains topics of violence and discrimination  Five years ago when I arrived in the Netherlands, I didn’t know much about their history. Every country and history teacher has a bias towards their own centrism and Belgium is no exception to that rule. On […]

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I went to Morocco during Ramadan and this is what it was like.

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In March 2025, I went to Morocco during Ramadan with a friend. This is a holy month for Muslims all over the world where they practise a form of intermittent fasting: they can only eat when the sun is down. There is an increased attention to prayer and the individual’s relationship to Allah (God). This

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