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What speech cost Jack Ma

By 2020, Jack Ma, China’s Business guru, was Asia’s richest man, worth more than $61.7 billion, and his companies, Alibaba and Ant Group collectively were worth more than $1.5 trillion. He went about with some air of importance. He was…

What’s the fuss about the Global South?

The rebalancing of economic power towards the Global South challenges the traditional dominance of the Global North and has prompted a re-evaluation of global governance structures The Global South is a term that has gained prominence in recent years, stirring…

What does Africa produce?

In the 1970s through the 1990s, during the heady days of pan-Africanism and dependency theory, it was taken as gospel truth that resources flow from a ‘periphery’ of poor and underdeveloped states to the ‘core’ of wealthy states. In this…