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Empowering or Exploiting? Africa’s digital story
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
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
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
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
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 […]