Melania Trump has been heavily criticised for wearing a white pith helmet in Africa, due to its association with colonial rule. The first lady of the United States is currently visiting the ...

This week the first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, was in Kenya for a “stop” on her “Africa tour“. Her decision to appear at Nairobi National Park wearing a white pith helmet ...

The first lady is being criticized for wearing a white pith helmet, the style of which has historical links to colonial rule in Africa. Trump wore the helmet during a safari at the Nairobi ...

Sometimes a hat is just a hat. But not when it’s a pith helmet worn by a white politician visiting Africa. Pith helmets are relics of colonialism and its big game hunting tradition. So why would ...

In keeping with her history of just really great and diplomatic fashion decisions, Melania is running around Africa wearing an actual goddamn pith helmet—a big, fat metonym for colonialism ...

Sometimes a hat is just a hat. But not when it’s a pith helmet worn by a white politician visiting Africa. Pith helmets are relics of colonialism and its big game hunting tradition. So why would ...

US President Theodore Roosevelt wore his pith helmet while on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition after his presidency in 1909. Matt Carotenuto, a historian and coordinator of African ...

But the pith helmet’s historical legacy goes beyond European cork varietals. The headgear was standard-issue for 19th century British officers in India and Africa, making it a potent symbol of ...

By the 1850s, they had become the standard-issue headgear for Europeans in Africa, parts of Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Pith helmets initially had a practical purpose: Their rounded ...

Belgium’s racist colonial past was on full display at an Africa-themed party over the weekend that featured blackface, pith helmets and voodoo-like skulls on sticks, according to a new report.

Sometimes a hat is just a hat. But not when it’s a pith helmet worn by a white politician visiting Africa. Pith helmets are relics of colonialism and its big game hunting tradition. So why would ...