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The statue of an indigenous woman will soon replace a prominent statue of Christopher Columbus in the heart of Mexico City. While is a strong symbolic attack on colonialism, the Mexican government should do more to challenge neo-colonialist policies driven by today’s foreign powers.
“We live in a time when technologies and ideas are adopted in response not to need but to advertising, salesmanship, and fashion. The first duty of writers who wish to be of any use even to themselves is to resist the language and the ideas of sales talk, no matter from whose mouth it issues.”
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the stark reality of Africa’s extreme dependence on imports to feed our populations.
We feminists of the 1960s-70s thought we might have won some of the battles against Patriarchy. However Patriarchy, in spite of all the movements, campaigns, and struggles, is not dead yet. The problems come from many directions, but they circle back to age-old conditions.
Two big regional developments took place last week — the announcement of the AUKUS, security alliance of three “maritime democracies” on September 15; and Iran’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as full member on September 17.
Until the U.S. steps forward and leads the effort, nuclear warfare will always be with us. And annihilation of the human species will always hover over us as a real, increasingly probable result.
September 19th was Paulo Freire’s birthday. He was a revolutionary whose passion for justice and resistance was matched by his hatred of neoliberal capitalism and loathing for authoritarians of all political stripes. Put simply, he was not merely a public intellectual but also a freedom fighter.
From fighting alongside communists in the Spanish Civil War to backing revolutionaries in Cuba, this interview highlights the radical side of writer Ernest Hemingway.
Celebration of scientific discoveries confined only inside the laboratory would be insufficient to achieve social goals, for which the scientific community has to step out beyond the laboratory with social sensitivity and political responsibility.
Humans evolved in Africa. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere – likely in Asia – before colonising Africa. At the time, around 50 million years ago, Africa was an island isolated from the rest of the world by the ocean – so how did primates get there?
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