26 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
On Ethiopia, Ukraine and the problem of the color line
The war has gone on too long. It has caused a lot of suffering, death and destruction. No, I am not talking about the war in Ukraine. I am talking about the civil war in Ethiopia that has raged since November 2020 and has pitted the regional government of the Tigray region in Northern Ethiopia led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front against the Federal government of Ethiopia led by Prime Minister Ahmed Ali. More than 500,000 people have died and many more have been displaced and left helpless because of this brutal conflict. While Tigrayans starve away under siege with only scanty help from the international community in a conflict that has lasted more than two years, last week the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen hosted a fundraiser for Ukraine at which over 9 billion Euros were raised for Ukrainian refugees. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is reported that more than 100 rebel groups and the Eastern part of the country has known no peace for several decades. In the Sahel region of West-Africa, countries there are battling the Islamic State and the lives of citizens have been destroyed. More than a decade after NATO aided the overthrow of Col. Muammar Gadhafi, Libya has been in endless turmoil. In all these conflicts there has been nothing more than limited involvement to decisively bring these conflicts to an end.
A response to defending the truth
Ukraine: democracy or imperialist anxieties?
Art and the Church: Madonna and the child
A theory of love
Diplomacy and decolonization
Jesus on adultery
From protest to power: The practice of revolution in Africa
Who owns the world, part two
Who owns the world?
Danger ahead
Low population growth: A looming seismic shift
On boos and soulmates
The world we have made
The ghost of Sarah Baartman lives on
Anarchy in production
Finally, it seems like the world will prevail over the novel coronavirus. Whereas it will be a while before any sense of normalcy in our lives is restored, the rollout of the vaccination campaign in different parts of the world over the past couple of months is a hopeful sign. Yet, even in this apparently remarkable moment, COVID-19 continues on its historic mission of revealing yet again the deep-seated inequalities in our society and the creases in the prevailing social, economic and political order. One such crease, unfolding in the global vaccine production and distribution campaign, is the “anarchy in (capitalist) production” as described by Karl Marx, arguably capitalism’s most formidable foe.