by Methode Emmanuel Ihirwe | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: ROMAN ODINTSOV. I read the second edition of The State They’re In by Matthew Lockwood, a book which examines African poverty’s causes and politics to propose better aid, trade, and debt policies. It also covers the 2005 Gleneagles G8 and WTO summit...
by Mari DiGiovanni | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: RDNE Stock project. I recently spent nine months traveling up mountains and along coasts to investigate why and how young people are choosing to farm for a living in Calabria, a southern region of Italy known for having lots of land but increasingly less...
by Methode Emmanuel Ihirwe | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Lawrence Baganiah. In the early years following Rwanda’s independence in 1962, the job market was more accessible for high school graduates. This was due to the small population of Rwanda, as noted by Trading Economics, and low literacy rates as...
by Mari DiGiovanni | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Luciana Evrard. It was just another day when I decided to meet a friend at a restaurant. As we stood at the counter, placing our orders, the waiter handed us a small device that instantly caught my attention. It looked remarkably like an old-school...
by Maria DiGiovanni | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Thirdman. Like most young people involved in activism, I have too frequently heard the dreaded phrase that reduced my passion to naiveté: “Just wait until you enter the real world.” Back in my early days of advocacy, I told myself I would never allow my...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Yelena Odintsova. I couldn’t help but scroll back to the image I just passed on Instagram. I was looking at a graphic of a brown sole coming down on, as if wanting to stomp and crush, a person. ‘BEYOND INDIVIDUAL BLAME’, read the graphic, with a...
