Development professionals will all have heard the word ‘empowerment’. While what the term empowerment means is…
Month: May 2015
Keeping the pain of Biafra in by atane:
A few people have asked me what my uncle kept inside for years in this post. My…
Goree Island
Picturesque Goree Island or as is commonly known in Senegal Île de Gorée The island of…
On Violence: Suicide, Homicide–and Both-And By Johan Galtung
Violence is to harm and hurt body, mind, spirit, even lethally, suicide, homicide, genocide (“cide”, from…
THE PURGE: HOW SOMALIA’S AL SHABAAB TURNED AGAINST ITS OWN FOREIGN FIGHTERS
BY JEREMY SCAHILL @jeremyscahill U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM AGENCIES have long been preoccupied with the threat posed by…
The wretched of the sea: an Algerian perspective By Hamza Hamouchene
The securitisation of immigration control has failed to solve the migrant crisis because it ignores the…