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Arts.21 - Postcolonial Europe: The significance of memory

With the "Black lives matter" movement and new migratory flows, European colonialism has been put centre-stage. How deeply are Western societies themselves rooted in colonialism ?  What are the questions we need to be asking? Four artists respond.

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