22 Mar 2023 5 minute read
... leaving the east of St Vincent to the Garifuna, a mix of South American Caribs and escaped or shipwrecked West African ... in the Grenadines, the stunning chain of islands that run south of mainland towards Grenada . The most popular beach in ... levels a particular concern. The islands lie far enough south to be usually missed by major hurricanes moving through ...
31 Jan 2023 4 minute read
... hours singing and scatting together, mixing elements of South Asian melodies and African grooves with Cuban ...
22 Dec 2022 7 minute read
... fight for fairer wages and public services. In the Global South, newly independent governments were throwing off ... of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. In the Global South, it was often done through coups and other violent ... in Washington DC. In Latin America and much of sub-Saharan Africa, the quantity of food that could be purchased with an ...
21 Dec 2022 8 minute read
... Zambia’s government is just one of many in the Global South facing crisis as the cost of servicing debts rockets. ... strengthening, while capital is draining out of the Global South, attracted by rising interest rates in wealthy nations. ... what is now Zambia was invaded by the British South Africa Company . The company used the region as a source of ...
21 Dec 2022 3 minute read
... to occupied Palestinians, from the Shack Dwellers in South Africa to the Diggers in the UK, Rojava to Cooperation ...
9 Dec 2022 3 minute read
... of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been exported to the Global South since its inception, but the WHO’s Global Mental ... radical overhaul would need to extend well beyond Asia and Africa and into the Global North where the scientific model ...
4 Nov 2022 7 minute read
... reality of climate breakdown is already visible in North Africa and the Arab region, undermining the ecological and ... debts to be definitely (re)paid to countries in the Global South by the rich North. This must take the form not of loans ... and damage, which is occurring disproportionately in the South. But, as inequalities exist not only between North and ...
9 Oct 2022 3 minute read
... schools around sex is common in both the Global North and South – a majority of teenagers reported receiving ... repair and vaginal tightness in both the Global North and South. Such procedures fail to recognize that the breaking of ... Comprehensive Sexuality Education programme in South Africa, which achieved significant progress in reducing HIV ...
29 Aug 2022 5 minute read
... Angola’s earth, as in so much of Sub-Saharan Africa, is red. The dust that lifts in the wind during ... has. It is now the third largest economy in southern Africa, with much of its new infrastructure built by the ... a decisive influence from European, Latin American and South American trends. RELIGION: Roman Catholic 56.4%, ...
2 Aug 2022 12 minute read
... hydropower projects continue to be proposed for the Global South. Collecting sand from the Ubangi River, Central African ... world, by a further five. I speak with Siziwe Mota, the Africa Program director of International Rivers, an NGO that ... the chequered history of the scheme, starting with South Africa’s agreement with DRC to purchase the generated ...
27 Jun 2022 6 minute read
... that assumes it can act with impunity in the Global South. As the people of Peru suffered the highest per-capita ...