History

  • The silence around power

    What must we think when a president, during a press conference, can hone in on a journalist doing her job and say, “she’s a horror show”, and the moment simply passes? Not merely passes politically, but morally. No visible discomfort from those around him. No meaningful defence of the journalist’s dignity. No national conversation about…

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  • Africa – from whence we came

    On 25 May Africa celebrates. And it has good reason to do so. While today is officially Africa Day, a day noting the formation in 1963 of the Organisation African Unity, now the African Union, it is worthwhile using this day to reflect on our perceptions of the continent. Africa has, through recent history, been…

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