From Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa there is a rich tradition of female writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike.
Vijay Prashad: Pan-African Revolutionaries
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Vijay Prashad: A Journalism of Defiance
As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorship with his pen.
Vijay Prashad: Freeing Women From Labor Inequality
In the month of International Working Women’s Day, a look at how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.
Vijay Prashad: Washington’s IMF Stranglehold
In the deeply undemocratic institution, the U.S. effectively holds a veto over any major changes and molds policies according to its whims.
Vijay Prashad: China’s Advanced Technics & the West
Will the U.S.’s geopolitical chess moves from Greenland to Ukraine to Russia be enough to eclipse China’s rapid advancement in critical technologies?
Vijay Prashad: Readers, Not Commodities
Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life — it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present and demand the impossible of the future.
Vijay Prashad: Rebellion in a Literary Future
Global South writers and policymakers have imagined and created futures beyond colonialism and environmental destruction.
Vijay Prashad: ‘Dreams Are Wearing Thin’
Hundreds of millions of people from the Americas to China have been killed or subdued so a small part of the world — the North Atlantic — could enrich itself. That is madness.
Vijay Prashad: The Life Expectancy of Palestinians
Palestinians, who have lost at least 11.5 years of their lives as a result of this horror, deserve much more than this threadbare ceasefire. They will continue their struggle to get it.
Vijay Prashad: Promethean Aspirations
The U.S. sees the economic advancements of China and other Asian countries as a “fierce competition.” For the Global South, however, this represents immense opportunity.