African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can expect to be stonewalled by former colonial powers, most of which have ruled out ...

Photo courtesy of FT The Galle Literary Festival took place in the heart of Galle’s fort, inviting diverse voices in poetry ...

Rural violence is a huge problem in South Africa that deserves a strong response. But white people are not the only ...

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For countries trying to flee the haunting shadows of a Western world-imposed unipolar hegemony, 2024 marked a new dawn for ...

The ebbs and flows between African and other cultures are intertwined. These are conduits for the world defying their ...

Many in the West, of the political right and left, now deny imperialism. For Josef Schumpeter, empires were pre-capitalist atavisms that would not survive the spread of capitalism. But even the ...

Columnist David Marcus writes that only American bureaucrats seem to be outraged over President Trump's war on the United States Agency for International Development. That's a big tell that it isn't ...

Malcolm X (Malik Shabazz) was grounded in African American folklore. He was fond of animal metaphors. His most famous analogy was the fox and wolf. Malik saw the fox as ...

The formation of The Hague Group marks a turning point in the global struggle to hold Israel accountable for its crimes in ...

Nine countries in the Global South have come together to form the Hague Group, dedicated to ensuring that international law ...

Trump's declarative re-mounting of McKinley begins not with the 25th president's performance as "Tariff Man," but rather with ...