Category Archives: Political Economics

The Making of the Apocalypse: Unraveling South Africa’s Detonating Socio Economic & Political Time Bomb

Source: BBC “The catastrophe in Children of Men is neither waiting down the road, nor has it already happened. Rather, it is being…
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The Evolution of Various Types of Post-colonial States in Africa.

Introduction With a dark history of socio-political and economic domination, Africa faces major challenges particularly on the economic front. In the quest to…
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A Critical Review of South Africa’s Nationally Determined Contributions (2021 Draft) to Climate Targets

INTRODUCTION Climate change is a global crisis that confronts every living organism on the planet. The crisis is characterized by rising carbon dioxide…
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Planet of the Humans: Untangling the Capitalistic Framing of the “Green” Movement

From the immigration rights in the USA, through drug policy reform in Brazil to non-violent resistance in Palestine the world has witnessed the…
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Characterizing Poverty In Africa: Why Economic Growth Alone is not Sufficient to Solve the Plague of Poverty

Since time immemorial, the endemic scourge of poverty has almost invariably, been synonymized with Africa. Africa’s paradox is that the continent is endowed…
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