Global South

The academic staff at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) in the 1960s reflected a spectrum of ideological orientations – unabashed right wing Cold Warriors, eclectic liberals, traditionalists claiming disdain from politics, African socialists, Fabian socialists, Pan-Africanists and Marxists o

Participants in a civil society network supporting the development of the African Union Human Rights Memorial (AUHRM) project gathered in Dakar, Senegal, to discuss the slave trade and slavery, together with representatives of the African Union Human Rights Memorial Interim Board.

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As Russia plans to increase its presence on the African continent’s weapons market with the latest military agreement to supply Angola with highly powerful military equipment such as Su-30K fighter jets, build an ammunition plant and provide maintenance services estimated at $1 billion, experts h

In the last two years, several articles and analyses have attempted to decrypt Algeria’s ambiguous position toward Western imperialist interventions in Libya and Mali.

Recently in the month of October 2013 the West African state, The Gambia, withdrew from the British Commonwealth. The latter is the 54-member grouping including Britain and most of its former colonies.

“We recognize of course that subordination cannot be understood except as one of the constitutive terms in a binary relationship of which the other is dominance, for ‘subaltern groups are always subject to the activity of ruling groups, even when they rebel and rise up’” – Rajinat Guha

In its most recent world public opinion survey, the Pew Research Centre found that only a third of South Africans identified ‘international financial instability’ as a major thre

These thoughts originate from comments and texts received from friends from China and they complement my article, “China 2012” which was published in “Pambazuka News 45” on this website.