The UK has decided to leave the European Union. The EU itself has now far more ‘far right’ xenophobic parties in the European parliament than ever before in its history. On the back of very virulent xenophobia, Trump, otherwise a sideshow freak in the branding/entertainment industry, is now a presidential contender in the […]

Literary skills and social interaction can be daunting for Blind and Visually Impaired(BVI) children as well as children with multiple disabilities. It is imperative that their learning starts at a very early age. When all of them cannot be integrated into mainstream schools, access to support services such as accessible […]

From Turkey to Zimbabwe, spaces for freedom of expression are shrinking in many parts of the world. The urgent need for freedom of expression around the world echoed in the voices of 2000 delegates that gathered in Bonn at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in June 2016. “Anything that […]

In March, social media woke up to a really startling story: a young girl, a 13-year-old child that had been kidnapped from Bayelsa, taken to Kano state, rechristened Aisha in an apparent conversion to Islam, and married off to a young man. The girl? Ese Oruru. The man? Yunusa Dahiru, […]

The 2016 DW Global Media Forum ended on June 15. One statement that will always remain fresh in my mind was made by Peter Limbourg, the DW Director General; ““The end of the freedom of expression is also the beginning of the end of democracy.” He said this while opening […]

Ya desde hace un tiempo se viene hablando del ocaso de la izquierda en Latinoamérica. El llamado Grupo Bolivariano, formado principalmente por los paises propulsores en la región del Socialismo del siglo XXI, es decir, Venezuela, Ecuador y Bolivia, empieza a dar señales de que se avecina un cambio del […]