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Across these disciplines, she keeps coming back to the same big themes: identity, memory, ancestry, resilience, belonging and the preservation of lived experience.
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Imperialism keeps evolving, never disappearing: How the Global South safeguards sovereignty via institutional historical memory
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Gold re-emerges as core reserve asset: Strategic implications for the Global South and Africa’s gold-producing economies
Major gold producers across South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Uganda, Mali, Burkina Faso and Tanzania, the ongoing global monetary restructuring brings unprecedented development opportunities.
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Dodgy elites’ flashy car hunting spots under fire... looting machine held to account over US$6bn flows
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