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When Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali wrote the classic ‘Nightfall in Soweto’, perhaps he had peeked far into the future and seen the exact similarities between his protagonist and Boko Haram in all their deviousness. When he wrote, “a murderous hand, lurking in the shadows, clasping the dagger, strikes down the helpless […]

As the world grapples with hot debates, climate change deniers and campaigners  – there are those of us taking a stand and acting on climate change. A group of Pacific youth are refusing to allow rising sea levels to force them out of their homes and have taken up arms […]

  This year’s European elections can definitely be considered the most important since their institution in 1979 and fall during a time where the same ideas of the European project, which finds its original roots in views expressed by figures like Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi in the Ventotene manifesto. The European electoral campaign in […]

  Restructuring Economies, Transforming Societies Over the past few decades, the world has embarked on a course that is unsustainable, inequitable and inadequate in terms of environmental degradation, depletion of natural resources, and transfers between and within generations; income and wealth distribution; global governance. Overcoming these problems requires us to […]

  In less than a week, EU member countries will be voting in the May 22 European elections. The nationalist parties of EU member states are all gaining a huge momentum. Ironically these right wing parties are uniting together to break away from the European Union. Due to years of austerity […]