“On a plain high in the mountains of Haiti one day a week thousands of people still gather. This is the marketplace of my childhood…The sights and the smells and Read More..
Political and Social Commentary
Haiti’s market women resist global forces
“On a plain high in the mountains of Haiti one day a week thousands of people still gather. This is the marketplace of my childhood…The sights and the smells and Read More..
West Africa’s New Currency: The End of France’s dominance in Africa?
Just over 30 years after the idea was initially conceived, it appears that the whole of West Africa will now be adopting one currency. On the 29th of June 2019, the leaders Read More..
Africa’s job market: what are the challenges?
The 2019 Ibrahim Forum Report highlighted the links between demography, economic prospects and mobility. In a context of a booming youth population and a decade of sustained economic growth, what are the Read More..
39 years since Walter Rodney fell; Andaiye, Walter Rodney’s colleague has rejoined the ancestors
This is a tribute of Eusi Kwayana to Andaiye, which captures her connection to the Rodney legacy, and the political and humanist traditions she shared with many others in Guyana and across Read More..
“They don’t see us; they just don’t care” – Stories from Saharawi freedom fighters
The story of Western Sahara, “the last colony in Africa”, is one of flagrant international law violation, and four decades of persistent military occupation by an African country of another Read More..