Stories from 2 October 2023
Trinidad and Tobago is still coming to terms with this new level of heat
Climate change has increased temperatures and accelerated rates of ocean acidification and coral degradation.
Decolonial perspective on race from the post-Yugoslav region
In the post-Yugoslav region, where racialized geopolitical cartography re-emerged after the Cold War, many people tend to deny the existence of racism when asked about it.
Israel swings between democracy and the religious far-right
“Israel has been often branded as the only democracy in the Middle East, but that idea is crumbling fast”
‘Gukurahundi’ genocide survivors struggle for closure in Zimbabwe
"... [N]o country in the world has ever moved on when injustices of the past have not been genuinely addressed."
For African literary criticism: Interview with the founder of francophone ‘African literary chronicles’
In 2021, the Goncourt Prize was awarded to a Senegalese author, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Does this, however, imply that Francophone African literatures are known and recognized at their true value?