History is no stranger to the idea that a single match can light a roaring fire. The people of eSwatini, one of the world’s 12 remaining absolute monarchies, have reminded the world of just that.
Saying Biafra deserves to be independent, or even saying the opposite, is a bit like saying that the world deserves to keep spinning: How do you even begin to justify why?
Africa's volatile and plateauing growth rates indicate that long-term economic development remains a distant aspiration. Such dismal trends beg the question: why has Africa fallen so far behind?
People do not wake up one day and spontaneously decide to butcher their neighbors. They are taught to fear. The Rwandan genocide did not start with slayings and the Holocaust did not start with gas chambers. Both events were preceded by a process of dehumanization in which marginalized groups were cast as enemies and outsiders.