Global South

The crisis of capital, the rise of the Occupy movement and the crash of Southern Europe have brought the problem of income inequality into mainstream consciousness in the West for the first time in many decades.

On March 26, war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda appeared for preliminary proceedings before the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the judges set the date for the case ‘The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda’ to begin on September 23, 2013.

FREETOWN, 4th April, 2013 - By the end of this week 850 Sierra Leonean soldiers would have left the shores of Sierra Leone on a mission to Somalia.

Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease are perhaps the best known novels not only to emerge from Africa but the entire world. The author of these classic works which embodied a clear anti-colonial theme, Chinua Achebe, passed away on March 21 in Boston.

The BRICS summit in Durban, or, rather, eThekwini, naturally draws attention of academics and activists to this group. Opinions on BRICS differ, whether in South Africa or in Russia.

The African National Congress doesn’t enjoy being attacked from the Left. Attacks from the Right can, of course, be breezily dismissed as racist/neo-colonialist/imperialist/liberal, you name it. The ANC dictionary overflows with ready-made ripostes to the Right.

‘We reaffirm the character of the ANC as a disciplined force of the left, a multi-class mass movement and an internationalist movement with an anti-imperialist outlook.’ So said Jacob Zuma, orating to his masses at the year’s largest African National Congress celebration, in Durban on January 12.

The emergence of China onto the global economic arena has received much attention, perhaps, than any emerging economy the world has seen; and several reasons are attributed to this.

Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony.

INTRODUCTION