The rise of darkness indeed splits the world … It divides us into those who believe in humanity and those who feel entitled to do whatever they want
The 99% are done waiting. Billionaire fortunes hit a record high and the G20’s effort on inequality has been deleted
The world is moving from borrowing African aesthetics to embracing African authority
President Cyril Ramaphosa told delegates that all G20 members except the US had signed the declaration
The absence of US President Donald Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin puts the spotlight squarely on President Cyril Ramaphosa and South Africa
Advancing climate and sustainability action will require that all arms, spheres and levels of government lead an integrated and interdependent response to climate change
For the first time in 14 years, the G20 youth engagement group (Y20) closed its summit last week without issuing a communiqué — the set of recommendations that usually feeds into a declaration by world leaders at their annual summit, this year being hosted in Johannesburg in November. In June, the Y20 submitted a communique […]
The Y20 summit revealed disparities in youth-driven calls for climate justice, inclusive growth and sovereignty between the Global South and North
Business interests and intellectual property laws privilege the wealthy and leave the rest scrabbling for life-saving medicine
Salimah Valiani’s beautiful, insightful anthology explores Johannesburg and its inhabitants
African societies are organised around the requirements of duty, while Western societies are organised around individual rights
Locally-driven global health solutions work best and decisions need to be taken as close as possible to the people affected by the health problems
To force a climate breakthrough, leaders must listen to and promote the stories of young people
Wealthy countries were quick to ban Southern African nations from entering their borders when the Omicron variant was identified, but did not do so to each other.
Cyril Ramaphosa says the terms of $8.5-million climate finance offered to South Africa by wealthy countries are not yet set in stone
In deciding how the world responds to the climate crisis, policymakers rely on research that tends to be written predominantly by men in the Global North
There are few, if any, studies to support Pfizer chief executive’s assertion that the global south would be more vaccine-hesitant than the north
A new book has collected writing about the condition of living, yes, with a high crime rate, but also other, more pervasive existential urban stresses particular to the Global South
A more explicit emphasis on the national interest may encourage donor countries to play ‘the long game’ in Africa
Why is the visual depiction of this country in centre-left international online news publications so unrecognisable?
Measures need to lay the foundations of a new economy and society post the pandemic
This is no time to snigger at the high rates of coronavirus in the Global North. We could be just as hard hit — and it is poor people who will suffer the most
Binyavanga Wainaina was an exceptional writer, activist and human being