Governance

Once again the darling of Europe, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, recently delivered a powerful climate change rebuke in Paris.[1] He loves travelling almost as much as making speeches and as frail as he is he wasn’t going to miss it.

‘La vie est un sale boulot’ finds a niche in the corpus of sociological novels[1] on two counts. Primarily, the text arises out of a social context plagued by ontological problems. The backdrop against which the narrative unfolds is Libreville in Gabon.

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has been in power without let for 35 years, going on to 36 years in April 2016. My theory or hypothesis is that he has been in power that long because of the original sin of the first generation leaders.

They cluster on the prosperous, Christmas-themed streets of Beirut: Syrian mothers and their children begging from passersby until deep in the night; young girls holding infant siblings; pre-teen boys with shoe shine cans who persist for blocks before finally taking no for an answer; grandmothers

Tadeo Nyebirweki, 1930-2012
One man’s approach to sustainable development and climate change
Odomaro Mubangizi

INTRODUCTION

The EU describes it as a landmark deal that will improve the global conditions for trade and benefit developing countries in Africa and around the world by getting rid of trade distorting export subsidies in agriculture.

INTRODUCTION

The denial of the existence of racism in Brazil is so strong that Black feminist scholar, Sônia Beatriz dos Santos, recalls being considered ‘crazy’ or not ‘taken seriously’ because of her insistence that racism exists in Brazil.

An interesting political scenario is currently being played out in Guyana that could end up telling us whether we are moving politically to something qualitatively better than before. The name and the person, Walter Rodney, is at the centre of it.

The British Broadcasting Corporation describes Scottish people in pursuit of independence from Britain or the United Kingdom as ‘Scottish nationalists’. Any researcher can find this characterisation by examining the BBC’s well-stacked library of broadcasts and publications on the subject.