
The Burning
The task for the new generation of South African activists is to reimagine power. That means resisting the impulse to use power in a way that demeans and cheapens and exploits.
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Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.

The task for the new generation of South African activists is to reimagine power. That means resisting the impulse to use power in a way that demeans and cheapens and exploits.

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France’s Minister of Justice resigns from the government, contesting François Hollande’s “terrorist law.”

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Those extracting value from the DRC’s soil over last 20 years show they’re willing to do anything—including 6 million deaths—to satisfy global commodity markets.

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