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Helping shape Africa’s future on two wheels: Team MTN-Qhubeka
Written by Stephanie
As the MTN-Qhubeka cycling team embarks on the 3,360 kilometre long Tour de France route, they hope to give others the opportunity to complete ultimately much longer lasting journeys on two wheels. This year, an African cycling team is competing in the Tour de France for the first time in […]
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Empowering or Exploiting? Africa’s digital story
Written by Charles Mensah
The debate on what international social media platforms get from the African continent can continue over and over but the issue is whether at the end of the day there is any positive results on both sides. Has Africa been able to get the best out of Facebook, Google, as […]
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Standing against the Spanish Anti-Gag Law should be a European challenge
Written by Angelo Boccato
The US journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald recently wrote an article on The Intercept titled: “The greatest threat to free speech comes not from terrorism, but from those claiming to fight it”. In the UK, during the Queen’s Speech the new measures included in the Counter Terrorism Bill […]
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Dear Nigerians, #Change is more than a hashtag
Written by Chioma Agwuegbo
No, this isn’t a ‘Dear President-elect letter’; trust me I am as exhausted with them as the next man. I am not exhausted with the trekking (and cycling, and swimming, etc.) though, young men and women traversing between states on in various ways in honor of their preferred leader, whether […]
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The Indigenous People of the Amazon have a proposal to safeguard forests
Written by Chiara Di Gaetano
The idea of putting a price on nature to preserve it may seem like a good idea: in the end, it is fair and is just to protect something we could not live without. Let us consider here the issue from a different point of view, the one of the […]
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New Media is Revolutionising Foreign Relations
Written by Charles Mensah
The advent of the new media has altered virtually every facet of our society. And, foreign policy has not been left behind either. We have become used to receiving news and commentary from new sources –the virtual space in form of tweets, Facebook updates, blogs, etc. – in addition to […]
