“You get this superficial veneer of admiration” Researching the experiences of women in social care work.

The high incidence of burnout and consequent high staff turnover represent a cost to the sector. For society at large, the current perfunctory appreciation must be converted to a deeper-rooted understanding and respect.

Cooking as Praxis

It is true that for many (especially women), cooking is a slog; a chore; a relentless rhythm of unrecognised servitude. Often an act of love but also an undeniable reminder of the domesticated femininity women are benchmarked against.

Anti-Blackness is hiding in plain sight

In thinking about anti-Blackness in the United States, I’ve had to contend with this phenomenon being alive and well in Mauritian society. A quick glance inwards and around can reveal a lot of uncomfortable, often racist history.

Carving the Indian Legacy: Where are we?

I am proud of my nation and as a concerned citizen and lover of my motherland, I do reserve the right to question the government and partake in speaking up

Pan-Africanism in the times of COVID-19

Corona times might have uncovered some scary facts, but they also exposed us to promising opportunities for collaboration and togetherness as Africans

The Word for World is Forest* | A Photo-Essay

The thing that the virus whispered into our ear, with its sharp voice, was simple and solid, "We are together in this...". That tiny thing, which was invisible to the eye at first, is now big enough to make our eyes bleed. The earth is a human colony…

Discovering my EU Citizenship too Late

I voted Remain. I’d consider myself an ardent ‘Remainer’ evident by the fact I proudly sport a ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ sticker on my laptop and I cried on a stranger’s shoulder the day the results were announced, but I never really understood what it was that we were losing until now.

Tatters of History

A visit to the once Palestinian City of Haifa

Post-pandemic Africa: Leadership for troubled times

As we head into a time of unavoidable hardship, but also a time of global reflection, the African continent which is no stranger to the struggles of the human condition, may yet have more to teach the world about surviving, leading and growing amid troubled times

On Music and Revolution in Algeria

The Musical Archive of a Revolution of Resistance and Freedom