Threatened by Chinese scientific and technological advances, the US has dragooned European countries through the North ...

But the source of Felix’s seemingly progressive beliefs about women’s sexual pleasure pre-dates Kagame by hundreds of years. Our conversation is not about policy or the post-genocide recovery but ...

F or years, Green New Deal frameworks have been debated across the world. How can climate change and economic inequality be addressed at the same time? The Covid-19 pandemic has further revealed the ...

Fish have outsized importance in Senegal, a nation of 16 million where as many as 1 in 6 people work in or around the industry. Fish is valued, culturally embedded and popular – star of the national ...

‘It hurts to breathe, please don’t let me fall asleep. If I sleep I won’t be able to wake up again.’ These were the last words of 15-year old Álvaro Conrado, the first victim of a bullet in ...

3 Colonial extraction. Another, much bigger, captive market had been created in the colonies. The model was simple. Take the example of India: local enterprise and industry were crushed; large ...

The ICJ ruling shook the global establishment. In Cape Town and Johannesburg, Conrad Landin asks if it could pave the way for justice for Indigenous peoples. South Africa is losing its status as an ...

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From the perspective of these mid-century ambitions, Guyana’s independence was a chronicle of defeat. Just 133 days after his election as chief minister, Jagan was deposed by a British military coup, ...

I was born in 1965, the year the plastic bag was invented. During my childhood, in a boom city in central India, I remember plastic bags were still relatively rare. Only the more expensive shops gave ...

Amid this devastating destruction of culture and the arrest and censorship of Palestinians and their supporters globally, the Palestinian-American writer Summer Farah asked: ‘If literature is your ...

'Punish' China. In Washington, I met Amitai Etzioni, distinguished professor of international affairs at George Washington University. The US, he writes, ‘is preparing for a war with China, a ...