Lessons from the Cape Town Water Crisis

What happens when a city runs out of water? Day Zero was the doomsday of looming climate catastrophe which was almost reached during the Cape Town water crisis of 2015-2020. A holistic geographical perspective places this local crisis in global context, and recognises a physical geography phenomenon of drought amid global warming as also a […]

Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism: critical notes and extracts

I. Critical notes Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism was originally published in 1955. It has since become a foundational essay on the nature of colonialism in postcolonialism. Significantly, until the Soviet Union repression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Césaire looked to the Soviet Union (and Stalinist socialism) as a future model for society. While Discourse on Colonialism presents as […]