Governance

To this day, colonial legacies mark many world regions. Former colonial powers thus still bear a responsibility for the fate of peoples they subjugated in the past.

While extreme weather is increasingly considered normal, Nepal still cannot protect its people properly.

Britain’s East India Company ran a highly profitable, but brutally exploitative narco-state in the Gangetic plains and exported highly addictive opium to China.

The transatlantic slave trade had a devastating impact on Africa and affects the continent to this day. The fact that the Arab slave trade also took a terrible toll on millions of Africans is often overlooked.

Why Islamabad’s military-backed government will get a chief justice of its own choice

The novel “Desertion” by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah is set in Zanzibar. It is a tale of resistance to social and cultural norms and of the power of love, interwoven in historical, political and cultural contexts.

The Economic Community of West African States is in crisis. It should aim to foster economic integration of its member states. The integration process of the European Union might give an idea of how that could be achieved.

The British and French forms of domination in West Africa were not identical, but ultimately quite similar.

Islamabad’s military-backed government wants to pass a constitutional amendment which, according to critics, would put at risk citizens’ fundamental rights.

Hichilema government achieves slow, but steady progress towards making burden of sovereign debt bearable.