By Mehmet Enes Beşer The “Global South” is a useful shorthand expression applied for decades to describe countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Oceania which have shared colonial histories, development issues, and peripheral positions in the world economy. In postcolonial solidarity rhetoric, the Global South paradigm aims to place at its center structural distortions of global order—unbalanced terms of ...
Decolonization is not merely the political independence of a society, but the process of dismantling the structures left behind by colonization that is, the economic, cultural, military, and epistemic domination of one people by another power. In other words, decolonization is the effort to reconstruct societies as historical, cultural, and intellectual subjects by eliminating the relations of dependency, identity fractures, and external domination over knowledge ...
One of the most devastating actions of European colonialism towards Africa was the physical removal of cultural heritage from the continent. During the 1897 British Punitive Expedition, the palace of the Kingdom of Benin was looted, and more than 3,000 bronze and ivory artifacts were taken to London. Today, approximately one thousand of these works are in the British Museum, ...
The Center for National Strategy (USMER) has organized an international conference on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea on July 18 and 19 in Istanbul, Türkiye. Today, we present the speech of Tao Zan. Tao is the Vice-president of the Faculty for Regional Studies in the Beijing University, China. By Tao Zan, Vice-president of the Faculty for Regional Studies ...
Introduction Burkina Faso, a landlocked West African nation, has experienced significant political and social upheaval in recent years. The rise of Captain Ibrahim Traoré to the presidency in 2022 marked a pivotal moment in the country’s history. This paper delves into the current situation in Burkina Faso, examining the socio-political dynamics that have shaped Traoré’s leadership and popularity. Burkina Faso, formerly ...
By Dr Halim Gençoğlu The Catholic Church stands at a critical crossroads. As it grapples with declining credibility in the West, growing spiritual hunger in the Global South, and internal calls for reform, questions surrounding its future leadership have taken on renewed urgency. For centuries, the papacy has been shaped largely by European traditions and perspectives, even as the heart ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen In the last four years, the struggle against neo-colonialism in Africa has continued to achieve significant successes. Coup plotters? While its roots go back further, a decisive turning point occurred in 2020 when a group of anti-imperialist revolutionary officers in Mali overthrew the pro-French government, shut down French military bases, and expelled their troops. This marked ...
Shanghai, November 12, 2024. In his magnificent work “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism”, written in 1916 and published for the first time the following year, Vladimir I. Lenin delineated, at the dawn of the twentieth century, the contours of the colonial situation that permitted placing it as the fundamental characteristic of the imperialist stage of capitalist society. In Chapter ...
“We will not make the great future we are looking for, If we do not know the great past we had.” Commandante Hugo Chávez January 15, 2006 By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein A few weeks ago, I listened to a press conference and an interview with Jorge Rodríguez. In both news events, the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela explained ...
By Hend Selim Dr. Mohamed Torshin, writer and researcher in the African affairs has spoken to UWI about expected developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the last coup attempt, the presidential election that witnessed chaos, postponing the parliamentary election. He also has talked about the curse of resources in Congo and how the colonial powers exploit conflicts in ...
The Sahrawi Writers and Journalists Union organized a conference with the theme “A Press Perspective on the Western Sahara Issue and Developments”. Journalists from numerous countries attended the meeting. From Türkiye, Kıvanç Özdal, the Head of Foreign News at Ulusal Kanal TV channel, cameraman Zafer Alpuğan and Aydınlık Newspaper columnist Ali Rıza Taşdelen were present at the meeting. In his ...
By Tahran Oruçoğlu, Baku, Azerbaijan The history of tension between Azerbaijan and France is not new. France was one of the three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which was created to normalize relations and achieve peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia. However, during the conflict, the Minsk Group did nothing to solve the problem. After Azerbaijan ensured its territorial integrity, ...