Sustainable business practice is a hot topic because ensuring the continuity of today’s economical survival into the future is of great concern. The core question is how a country can reconcile the need to be environmentally and socially sustainable with the demands of a market-based system, whose key measurements of
Category: Africa
A Brief History of Piracy and Globalisation
Piracy as a phenomenon is as old as the first ships. When we hear the word ‘pirate’, we mostly think about the buccaneers who roamed the Caribbean during the 17th and early 18th century, the Golden Age of Piracy, and inspired characters such as Captain Jack Sparrow and Robert Louis
Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country whose past is steeped in violence, conflict, internal strife and an ongoing humanitarian crisis. The question is whether the UN can deliver peace?
Kidnapped, Butchered, Offered: Human Sacrifices in the 21st Century
Commonly associated with the bloody excesses of the Aztecs and cheap tribal exploitation films from the 1980s, human sacrifices are an often deemed a thing of the past. The problem is: They very much are a reality even today.
Bookmobiles – Education on the Move
In places where books and education are not available for everyone, a mobile library can make a big change.
Exploited, Abandoned, Banished – Pregnant but Unmarried in Burkina Faso
In Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries of the world, young girls who get pregnant without being married are believed to bring misfortune and disaster not only to their family but their entire village and are therefore chased away, forcing them into homelessness.
Sankara’s Heirs
Thirty years ago, Thomas Sankara was overthrown and shot after seven years of governing Burkina Faso. Last year, his successor had to hand over power after the biggest protest in recent history.
Unheard South Solidarity: The Asian-African Conference
Many have never heard of a particularly strong relationship between Asia and Africa, two of the world’s most developing regions. The article brings to attention the Asian African Summit, or KAA, took place in Indonesia, bringing 109 leaders from Asia and Africa.