by Mark Swilling | Nov 8, 2015 | Blog
Amazing research is being produced by our students, quite a few of whom received mobility bursaries to spend time (sometimes for several months) based at various African Universities. The topics are wide ranging, including material flows in African cities, the roles...
by Mark Swilling | Nov 7, 2015 | Blog
Aahh finally!! A book documenting Africa Uprising – what a wonderful play on the mainstream discourse of Africa Rising – uprisings in 40 African countries discussed. Africa may not be a country, but it has a unique historical legacy and similar modes of...
by Mark Swilling | Nov 5, 2015 | Blog
In response to the rise to leadership of the Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn, Ben Okri published the following poem in The Guardian on Monday 12 October 2015. As always, Okri captures the spirit of the moment: They say there is only one way for politics. That it looks...
by Mark Swilling | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog
Wow, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins the Best of the Best award for her novel about the biafran war (Half of a Yellow Sun) – she’s a Nigerian novelist who sparkles with all the optimism and power of the generation that is reshaping Africa’s future...
by Mark Swilling | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog
WTO rules that Indians are not allowed to build their own solar panels to meet their energy needs in a low carbon way because this will harm the import into India of American-made solar panels. So herewith clear and irrefutable proof that short-term profits are more...
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