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Alchemy: much more than male-driven pseudoscience
What has long been seen as a deluded effort to turn base metals into gold is being reassessed by researchers as a serious precursor...
Beyond the Battlefield
Since the beginning of time, wars and conflicts have been an inextricable part of human history. As such, they have developed in lockstep with...
Africa Day 2023: Remembering the Past and Looking for a Better Future
The phenomenon of colonialism created the Africa Day 60years ago. And Africans always remember May 25th, a momentous occasion observed with receipt of friendly messages from...
Beware the Munich Lesson… especially in Ukraine
"Appeasement in itself may be good or bad according to the circumstances. Appeasement from weakness and fear is alike futile and fatal. Appeasement from...
Human History and the Wonder of the Horse
Imagine a person accustomed to traveling at 3 to 4 mph, who discovers a means (the horse) to speed up to 5 times that...
Who hates China’s rise the most: from the “yellow peril” to the “biggest challenger”
From Deng Xiaoping’s economic policy that lifted more than 800 million people out of poverty to China’s current domination in the field of Artificial...
Battling for supremacy: Tearing Sudan apart (Sudan civil war 2023)
Historical background:
In 2019 Sudan president Omar-al-Bashir made Abdul Fattah al-Burhan Inspector General of the Sudanese army and then 2 months later, General Abdul Fattah...
National Reconciliation in Tajikistan: The Civil War, Peace Process and Stability in Central Asia
By the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was on the edge of a total collapse. Political and social turmoil loomed over Central Asia, clearing...
From Nehru to Modi’s India
A few weeks ago, India’s main opposition party leader Rahul Gandhi was sentenced to two-year jail for a defamation case. The case was about...
Religion inspired the nation-state, but politics made the difference
Think that the modern nation-state originated with the emergence of the 17th-century beginnings of the era of science and reason? Think again.
In a recently...