The Fight To End Child Marriage Begins At Home
Six years ago, I went to Kathmandu, Nepal, to spend half a year teaching in a hot and dusty classroom. I began each morning with a rudimentary attendance check. Supplemented with dog-eared English textbooks, my troupe of 12 yea...
Daily News Roundup – 27 September 2012
Africa and Middle East Sudan and South Sudan further their diplomacy Sudan and South Sudan leaders have moved their diplomatic relations forward by agreeing to deals on trade, oil and security. These include an amnesty zone, bu...
Applying Sense to Regional Integration
Regional and market integration has the capacity to unleash untapped potential in Africa especially from an economic point of view. The creation of a unified policy on trade can help remove trade barriers between neighbouring s...
Tunisia: A Constitution & A Soft-Coup
As a Tunisian, I could not be happier to announce that there is now solid hope in my people’s full independence and prosperity: That hope is summarized in the Tunisian Constitution of 2014. 1881 marked the start of the oc...
The Hidden Value Of India’s Space Program
On the fifth of this month the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) became the fourth space agency in the world to attempt to reach the Red Planet. ISRO’s Sriharikota assembly and launch facility, in the very south of An...
‘Take Up the Word’: Santomean Scholar Calls For Push Back On Racial Stereotyping By The Media
In our everyday lives we are often exposed to stereotypical images of all kinds and, a lot of times, we do not even realize it. We have grown used to seeing women as a “sexual object”, the black person as the “criminal...
