‘Welcome and important’: academics on decolonising education

A Cambridge research fellow, Malachi McIntosh, spoke of a ‘sepia-tinged nostalgia for a past that never was’.The debate sparked by a group of undergraduates at the University of Cambridge, on how and whether to “decolonise” British tertiary education by incorporating more black and minority ethnic voices, is spreading rapidly across universities and academic disciplines.Malachi McIntosh, a Cambridge research fellow and expert on 20th and 21st century Caribbean literature,