This is the central feature of the white saviour mentality, and it’s a mentality that has deep roots in colonialism. It is exactly how white colonisers framed their violent invasions of people’s lands, by claiming that these were barbaric and unintelligent peoples that didn’t know any ...
How did Voodoo start? Voodoo was originally practiced about 6,000 years ago in northern Africa before spreading to Haiti and the Americas during the 16th and 17th centuries. West African slaves were shipped into Haiti to serve the French plantations. What are the main beliefs of Voodoo? Voodoo...
It is said that officially, Apartheid was introduced into South Africa in 1948 by the African National Party. However, this heinous practice was very much there during the turn of the 19th century as well. Even Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was had to experience this vile practice when he was th...
So when Sir John Kotelawala presented the idea that there is a new form of colonialism, and the relationship between Moscow and East Europe, we said: “No that is not colonialism, that is up to them.” Therefore, the meeting about this problem of colonialism, and all its new forms, end...
‘off-centre’. Yet, neoliberalism’s own extreme foundations are constantly in the process of being hidden and denied. Any resulting privilege is founded on colonialism, misogyny, racism and incarceration and is the outcome of that very complacency / denial. In order to uncover or circulate a ...
How can I deny that my grandparents’ access to education and economic success did not materially affect me in a positive way, directly, through my father? I thought about the loans my parents were able to take with financial backing from my grandparents, and how that benefitted me. My lif...
Ida would later be influential in helping to found the first African-American women’s clubs. Frederick Douglass came to see her. They formed a friendship that would last the remainder of the great man’s life. He was particularly touched that the young woman from Memphis did not mistreat ...
government in Pretoria, the National Party. South Africa engaged in attacks against the Frontline States in economic and militarist form. South Africa had this power because it was the center of the Southern African economy due to the railroads...
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women associated with SHGs employed a wider variety of narrative styles and utilized a more complex structure to convey their problems and demands compared to non-member women. Drawing on this analysis, we argue that SHGs contribute to deepening democracy by improving the quality of women’s part...