Why Hondurans See Migration as an Act of Civil Disobedience
In walking out of their country en masse, Hondurans are making a loud, bold statement about the extreme injustices they face at home.
Citizen Activism in Europe’s Periphery: “An Antidote to Powerlessness”
“Activism and imagination at Europe’s external borders is much more radical than in Western Europe,” said Dominique Willaert, artistic leader of the social-artistic movement Victoria Deluxe.
My Year of Reading African Women’s Novels
Source: The Guardian
Shamed by a gap in his reading, the Guardian writer vowed to read only fiction by African women in 2018. After 19 novels spanning Nigeria to Ethiopia, he shares what he learned
At last year’s Guardian Opinion Christmas party – modest affairs at which those who want to dance are outnumbered by those who want to talk by at least five to one – I met Chibundu Onuzo, a Nigerian author.
“We share a publisher,” she told me.
“I’m sorry,” I told her. “I haven’t read your book.”
A World That Is the Property of the 1%: Wall Street, Banks, and Angry Citizens
The inequality gap on a planet growing more extreme.
The Horror of the Yemen War is Changing Minds at Last
The war in Yemen is horrific and ought to be ended immediately. It makes eminent good sense to give both our hands and all the energies we can possibly summon to end the war in Yemen and vow the abolition of all war.
Winter Reading: Power, Magic and History in Dark Times
How exactly did the Trumps, the Russians and their international co-conspirators mess with American minds to seize power? In several recent books, deeper answers gradually emerge. But some of the revelations are so unsettling it helps at times to escape into fiction. Here are some recommended readings to help cut through the fog of info-war.