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Creating Africa World Press – Shining a Light on African Knowledge with Kassahun Checole
Decolonising Access Podcast: Episode Five “It is vital that we empower our languages and our culture.” – Kassahun Checole Creating Africa World Press – Shining a Light on A | RSS.com In this episode, Bethlehem Attfield talks to Kassahun Checole, the founder of Africa World Press (1983) and The Red Sea Press (1985), which, to…
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TWQ Special Issue: Polyalignment and the Second Cold War
“We’re neither facing east nor west; we’re facing forward where opportunities are.” Those are the words of Kenyan President William Ruto in response to a journalist who asked whether Kenya would prefer investment from China or the US. Similarly, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said rather than being pro-China or pro-US, “[w]e are pro-Singapore.” These statements echo leaders around…
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What is the Role of Queer Cinema When the Streets Are Burning?
What role can queer cinema play when societies are confronting political crises? And how might film programming become a practice of collective care rather than cultural consumption? In this blog post, Rizky Rahad, an Indonesian filmmaker, programmer, researcher, and co-founder of the Bali-based queer cinema collective QAMERAD, reflects on his presentation at the Eye International…
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Who Governs Learning? Africa, Knowledge Power and the Struggle to Teach the Future
A deceptively simple question has accompanied Magdaline Nkando (Founder and Lead of Kujua Collective) throughout more than a decade of her work across African public institutions, multilateral development organisations, and comparative knowledge systems. It ultimately gave birth to the Learning Justice Framework, which explores how societies govern learning, whose knowledge becomes legitimate, and how unequal…
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Music, Activism and Academia – Indonesia’s Punk Past and Present with Hikmawan ‘Indra’ Saefullah
In this Q&A, Hikmawan ‘Indra’ Saefullah, lecturer in Politics, Extremism, Philosophy, Studies in Religion, and Peace Studies at the University of New England, talks to Mira Mookerjee about punk’s role to challenge political oppression, his experiences with Pelajar Islam Indonesia (PII) and the new wave of punk bands coming out of Indonesia today. Hikmawan Saefullah…
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Rereading the International through Childhood and Militarisation: Insights from BISA 2026
What can the encounter between childhood and militarisation reveal about international politics? Marcos do Vale Araujo, a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, attended the British International Studies Association (BISA) 2026 Annual Conference in Brighton, and reflects on how the conversations on childhood, militarisation, and global politics challenged…
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Redefining “Women’s Work”: Challenging the Limits on Girls’ Education with Baela Raza Jamil
Decolonising Access Podcast: Episode Four “As we know, women are always productive, always doing something, always economically engaged – but it’s not counted that way. […] It’s a lens we need to change.” – Baela Raza Jamil
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Staying in School: How the Amal Foundation is Preventing Child Marriage in Bangladesh
In this piece, Esrat Karim, a Bangladesh-based social entrepreneur and founder of the Amal Foundation shares how initiatives can support young women and girls to avoid early marriage and remain in school. Child marriage is often treated as a cultural issue, but it remains closely tied to poverty and insecurity. For many struggling households, families…
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The Manila Paradox: Red-Tagging, Repression, and Democracy in the Philippines
While the Philippines presents itself internationally as a democratic partner, its domestic reality tells a different story — one marked by red-tagging and intimidation. In this piece, geopolitical analyst Tommaso Franco explores the “Manila paradox” and the growing pressures faced by activists, journalists, lawyers, and ordinary citizens across the country. Image by Rebecca Hedin, sourced…
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The Gaza Genocide and the Crisis of the Global North: A TWQ Special Issue
This special issue (The Gaza Genocide and the Crisis of the Global North. Guest Editors: Ibrahim Fraihat and Abeer Al-Najjar, Volume 47, 2026) examines the war on Gaza not only as a devastating act of mass violence against Palestinians, but as a revealing moment that exposes deep crises within Western political, legal, and media systems.…
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Reckoning with Empire: Defiant Scholarship with Takiyah Harper-Shipman
How can research translate into action? Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Davidson College and newly appointed academic editor at Third World Quarterly (TWQ), Takiyah Harper-Shipman, talks to Mira Mookerjee about her upcoming book, Unruly Fertility: Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics, defiant scholarship, scholar-activism, and her forum Reckoning with Empire. “Ultimately, my…
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