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Loïc Gapin, The Car is Still in the Compound

Loïc Gapin: The Car is Still in the Compound

In this personal essay, Cameroonian writer and DBA candidate Loïc Gapin reflects on a Peugeot 504 that has sat unmoved in his family’s compound in Yaoundé for thirty years. What begins as a meditation on one parked car becomes a reckoning with structural adjustment, inherited silence, and the education a generation received in place of […]

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Mining excavation site with heavy machinery in an African landscape.

A Green Transition Without Empire: Why the Global South Needs a New Global Economic Order

The global transition to a low-carbon economy has reignited a familiar struggle over control of raw materials. This story is written and edited by Global South World In previous eras, when other raw materials were viewed as equally critical for industrialisation (cotton, rubber, iron, oil, etc.), colonial powers ensured that they extracted them from compliant […]

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