There's plenty of feelgood symbolism surrounding the 70th anniversary of the arrival of West Indians in Britain on the Windrush. But, argues David Olusoga, Britain's nostalgia for this event obscures a more complex story of imperial subjects attempting to exercise their rights in the face of institutional racism
In the summer of 1902, Alice Seeley Harris stepped out on her porch to meet with a sobbing man in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. The visitor, Nsala of Wala, handed Alice a package wrapped in plantain leaves.