At 10:00 on 26 December 2016, approximately 3000 people gathered at Tempelhofer Field in Berlin’s southern suburbs ready to embark on a long walk from Berlin, Germany’s capital city, to Aleppo in Syria, a city almost completely destroyed by civil war. The route between Berlin and Aleppo is symbolic because it is the path followed […]
Sadly, one major challenge in Nigeria – South Africa relations over the years, beyond the recent violent attacks on Nigerians and other Africans, is the lack of mutual diplomatic and tactful reciprocity on the part of the South Africa government and the country’s non-state actors for the strategic role Nigeria played in the struggle against […]
Rosa Andrade, 67 years old, was the last woman to be able to speak an ancient indigenous language known as Resingaro. She belonged to the Peruvian tribe of Ocaina, but her mother was a Resingaro, so Rosa and her brother were the only two people able to speak their mother native language. But now her language […]
By Francesca Humi Possible allies, solidarity, and joining together to fight white supremacy “When will Asian lives matter?” asked my aunt as we watched the 2016 Oscars hosted by black male comedian Chris Rock, who was addressing the absence of Black nominees that year at the Oscars. I was visiting her for reading week in […]
Earlier this month, 37 year old Alton Sterling was shot and killed outside a convenience store in Louisiana where he sold unlicensed DVDs. He was unarmed. Within the week, the news would break of 32 year old Philando Castile who had been shot four times by police forces while he reached for his license and […]
