Little did Gambians know that the 22-year brutal rule they had gone through under former tyrant Yahya Jammeh would come to an abrupt end in the December 1, 2016 presidential election. The tiny West African nation of roughly 1.8 million ...
Social democrats lose when they try to be all things to all people. Better to side with the progressive middle class. This Article was written by Nick Ottens for the Atlantic Sentinel , Young Diplomats’ Partner. The original article is available ...
To gain entrance to the festival, organizers require that a person bring five empty cans, five plastic bottles, 1 kilo (2.2 pounds) of old paper and five glass jars. Called the Garbage Festival, the event aims to raise awareness among citizens, especially youths, about the hidden ...
Last week, I chaired a session with Omar Ghobash on his new book, ‘Letters to a Young Muslim’. You can see his Daily Show interview with Trevor Noah here. It is a terrific book, written with great heart, wisdom and ...
The best class of human societies is those of the ladies and gentlemen – in the precise sense of those words. These are the guardians of all civilized societies. They mend the cracks and holes caused to the fabrics of ...
The traditional analytical frameworks for international relations, pinpointing remaining disparities between developed and developing countries, seem to fall into obsolescence. Current studies tend to shift the attention to the new actors driving the international dynamics, especially global cities, that appear ...
After defying polls, scandal and worldwide opprobrium, Donald Trump finally became the 45th President of the United States . Did you know that the man that will lead the World Superpower and Shape US Foreign Policy once hosted his own reality ...
‘Neocolonialism’ has become a widely used word by African heads of states in recent time, and in as much as we Africans resist colonialism in every form, but we must admit that more often than not, the cry of our ...
“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society… It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and ...
Politics can be a rough business. What happens when leaders lose their positions of authority, the halls of power close, and their supposed friends and allies desert them? What happens when a leader’s very survival is in jeopardy? Political defeat ...