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White Widow, White Lies?
Samantha Lewthwaite has been a prominent feature of mainstream news since the attacks on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi this September. However, when her name is entered into a Google search, the foremost entry is a li...
Giants, Hackers, Trolls: Where Mythology and Online Activism Meet
Netizens have come to know a “troll” as ”someone who posts a deliberately provocative message” to fuel an argument online. That these inflammatory net users were labeled as “trolls” was no accident. The original m...
Liberia: Yet To Adopt a National Youth Policy
Youth all around the globe are the pillar upon which a successful nation leans; in another term the youth are the foundation of a society, their fortitude and tenacity to engage into progressive social–economic activities set...
The secret killings of Assam: skeletons from the closet
Dr Dharanidhar Das was my parents’ classmate in high school. A shy, quiet, intelligent man who spent more time with his poetry than his medical books. This man was the leprosy doctor in Juluki in the village of Barama, invol...
WATCH: Holistic Planned Grazing: Is This the Solution to Climate Change?
Burning fossil fuels isn’t the only way to pour carbon into the atmosphere. In this TED talk, Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory explains how desertification – the process of land turning into desert – is an equal if not...
New Russia, Old Rules
9 October marks the start of the appeal trial of Alexei Navalny. The opposition politician and activist, who publicly proclaimed President Vladimir Putin and his party United Russia a “party of crooks and thieves”, was co...
