In the wake of failed states growing economic and political inequality and the ongoing US and NATOled wars for resources security and economic dominance worldwide contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness projects by Sven Augustijnen Vincent Meessen Zarina Bhimji Renzo Martens and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence f