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Opinion – Is colonialism solely responsible for Africa’s economic, political stagnation?
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Opinion – Is colonialism solely responsible for Africa’s economic, political stagnation?

Many years after independence and nationhood, almost every African leader is placing the blame of Africa’s inability to lift herself up economically and politically on her former colonisers. However, African countries are not the only ones, which were colonised. Other countries, which were colonised have since then risen up and faced real economic and political...

Opinion – Namibia’s forgotten second citizens
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Opinion – Namibia’s forgotten second citizens

In his poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, Winfred Owen questions whether it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. His question arises from a battle during the First World War that ensued, in which his comrade-at-arms helplessly drowned in gas and later his corpse unceremoniously tossed at the back of the truck.  Similarly, many...