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Schoolchildren fall through the digital divide.

QAnon has a lot to learn from Brazil.

Governments need to pull their weight.

Nilanjana Bhowmick despairs of India’s new religion; why Indian outrage over Black Lives Matter rings hollow.

You shall live; and you shall die. Leonardo Sakamoto examines his country’s necropolitics in the light of Black Lives Matter.

Nanjala Nyabola on the mask mandate and personal freedom.

Nanjala Nyabola grapples with the challenge of misinformation and disinformation.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the deadly neglect of rural heartlands.

Leonardo Sakamoto on how the rich are responding to the pandemic.

Nanjala Nyabola questions why the West always has to put itself at the centre of the story.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the dangers of ignoring concerted anti-Muslim violence.

Leonardo Sakamoto on why black women are so active in fighting growing misogyny.

Confessions of a frequent flier by Nanjala Nyabola.

Tolerance in the most holy city by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

A war against indigenous people, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

Adding pain to the pandemic. Nilanjana Bhowmick on the recent legislation steamrolled through parliament that has disadvantaged working people and gripped India’s farmers in protest.

Leonardo Sakomoto tackles a topic close to his heart: modern-day slavery.

With Trump’s defeat, Bolsonaro loses his imaginary friend. Bolsonaro’s desperate pledges to Trumpism have not paid off, argues Leonardo Sakamoto. 

The cries of a discontented world, by Nanjala Nyabola.

The assault on journalists is an assault on democracy. Chin’ono’s crime was using Twitter to criticize Zimbabwe’s government, writes Nanjala Nyabola.