Society & Culture

Harper Lee’s sigh towards God and the signature psychology in her writing of To Kill A Mockingbird

There is blood in our silence, and in our silence the milk and honey, assertion and defiance of language lives and breathes. In our projections from...

The drive for quality education worldwide, faces ‘mammoth challenges’

Aligning inclusive, quality education with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was centre-stage on Friday, as the President of the UN General Assembly held a high-level interactive...

Vincent van Gogh: The Other. Now we will both drown in agony, despair and ecstasy

Now he belongs to the elite. Like a photo workshop, even the trying decline of the citizenship (belonging to the working and lower middle classes) of stigma...

Cyber-terrorism

Every day in this country there are men, women and children who live without honour, decency, values and integrity. This is Africa and sub-Saharan Africa’s masterpiece...

Frankly Speaking: School Safety as a Concept Matters

Safety in school is a microcosm of safety in society, its social institutions and beyond. Squelch, 2001, has defined, a safe school as one that is...

Marilyn Monroe: A cuckoo hatchling pushing eggs outside of its nest

They took photographs of you. Might as well been from dawn to dark photographs. In pictures, in films, the light certainly never left your eyes. Your...

Give me religion that does not polarise society

A few years ago in Aceh, a poster was put up by the Islamic Sharia Department in Banda Aceh of the communications and information agency office,...

You never miss the water, till the well runs dry

In the past twenty years, virtually every country around the world has experienced natural calamities if we have experienced it in the form of drought, famine,...

A World in Distress

World mean temperature is up 1.1C since the industrial revolution.  Climate experts believe we have 12 years before it rises enough to set up a self-reinforcing...

Connecting the Poles: The importance of collaboration between regions

The Arctic and Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), separated by thousands of miles, share many of the same wonders and challenges, and yet they hardly work together...

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