Uniting Africa: visa-free travel and the future of Pan-Africanism
In 1984-85, The Berlin Conference carved up the African continent with rulers and red lines, ignoring the complex ethnic, linguistic...
Elysha Din
The sound of silence: The Taliban’s war on women in Afghanistan
“If we can’t speak, why even live?” (BBC News, 2024) In the 1970s, a woman in Afghanistan may feel the...
The Flawed Utopia of Megalopolis: Why Bigger isn’t Always Better
Image Credit: The Guardian “People don’t need dreams. People need help now.” Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a $120 million...
Beyond the beaches: the two faces of Cape Town
Monday afternoon, mid-October. I watch the UV index decrease from twelve to eleven as I alternate between sunbathing and swimming....