On 21st January 2024, Uganda assumed chairmanship of the Group of 77 (G77) and China during the official opening of the Third South Summit at Speke Resort Munyonyo. The G77 is a coalition of over 130 developing countries founded to promote shared economic interests and to amplify their negotiation voice at the United Nations. The South […]
As Africans, we cannot continue to be a people that turn on our own because we have outsiders urging us on to do so. We are as human, as the next human trying to help us determine our destiny. Unfortunately, to use the words of one notable Son of Africa Dr. Kaihura Nkuba, the biggest […]
As a continent that is unfortunately suffering late development, Africa is a highly engaged region of the globe with interventions in trade, politics, and culture from the different global powers. We can taxonomize the divide of global powers intervening in Africa today under two categories; the West and China (East). How Africa benefits or loses […]
We are interesting animals, humans. Interesting! Nobel Laurette and profound cognitive psychologist Daniel Kahneman, author of “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, has argued that our brains are predisposed to give priority to bad news. That negative perceptions stick to our psyche faster than positive perceptions. If true, nowhere has this attribute of human psychology been more […]
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi. The world’s bipolar power structure which had determined the security policies of the two global powers, the USA and USSR, collapsed with the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. This left America as the sole power with global dominance. I think that the inherent structure of unipolarity and the U.S.’s […]
By Steven Akabwayi While at Kigezi High School Kabale, we had a teacher who was fond of making fun of students but we could find it hard to hate him because of his great sense of humor and storytelling skills that made us fall in love with history. One of the remarkable phrases I remember from […]
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi If you are to read only one line in this article, and merely for motivational value, it is that China reassures us of the possibility of changing the course of history. It did so. I don’t suggest we should copy and paste the Chinese model. I call that we learn […]
The year 2024 promises to be yet another interesting one if the events that transpired at the close of the past year are anything to go by. On the 29th of December 2023, the government of the Republic of South Africa formally filed a case against the state of Israel with the Hague based International […]
During my high school years, music wasn’t just an entertainment to me ,it was the air I breathed, I had a taste for different music genres but more remarkably, I held Bob Marley’s Reggae and Pharrell William’s RnB so dearly. Bob and Pharell’s hits were not just a mere sound to me but a gateway […]
China’s ‘Win-Win’ Cooperation with Global South Signals Shared Vision By Abubakar M. Zirabamuzale The term North/South divide, so often described by economists and scholars alike as the “Brandt Line”, has been around for 40 years now. Initially, it didn’t seem to mean much since it was coined by the former German Chancellor Willy Brandt in his […]