Why save an Endangered Language?
Languages fascinate me. Not just the ones that are widely spoken like Spanish or Swahili, but more obscure ones that are spoken by few. Having…
Social Issues
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23-05-2014A walk through a Hospital in Rural Gambia
As part of Hand in Health and Books for Africa’s project to expand ICT in The Gambia, I had the chance to tour the Sulayman…
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29-10-2013Gender in Development : A Case Study of Bangladesh
Headlines and reports would have us believe that women have reached gender parity in Bangladesh. The female under-five mortality rate is 20 per cent lower…
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12-05-2012Rigoberta Menchú and I
This is part biography, part book review and homage to one of the greatest human rights activists who remains largely unheard-of. Rigoberta Menchú is more…
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07-08-2011
Slavery, the modern kind
I’ve always wondered how the working class in Dhaka, Bangladesh remained to stay afloat economically. In an ever-growing city of over 12 million people, dwindling…
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05-08-2011
Female Genital Mutilation
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), also known as Female genital cutting or female circumcision, is any procedure involving the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or…
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