Remembering 17 October 1961. The massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris brought colonial violence into the streets of the French capital. Remembering that night means confronting the silences that have shaped its place in history.

At a time when award systems and the choices behind them are being questioned, the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, who chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. What does this recognition mean for the struggle for justice and accountability?

Discovery for whom? The lands Columbus reached in 1492 already had names, peoples, and histories. Calling his arrival a “discovery” centres the coloniser’s perspective while pushing Indigenous knowledge and resistance out of the story.

Set in the Himalayas, Black Narcissus (1947) invites a decolonial reading of colonial authority. Follow us to explore more film recommendation.

As part of the World Decolonization Forum 2026, selected papers from the Call for Papers were presented across 14 Academic Sessions. Academic Session IV, titled “Decolonial Aesthetics, Affect, and Embodied Knowing: Sensing Otherwise—Affect, Art, and Decoloniality,” explored how popular music, cinema, digital motherhood cultures, and storytelling pedagogy can reproduce and challenge colonial structures of representation and knowledge. The discussions highlighted how art, cultural expression, and lived experience can open up alternative ways of sensing, knowing, and learning.