A keynote speech by Yanis Varoufakis, followed by a panel discussion with Ece Temelkuran, Vijay Prashad and Nick Estes.
Stefan Ouma provides a critical account of Africapitalism as well as an assessment of the future/s it imagines, what it silences and its potential to transform...
DiEM25 co-founder Yanis Varoufakis on capitalism in crisis, and what should come next. Video by Double Down News. Support DDN: http://www.patreon.com/DoubleDownNews
The tale of Elkhorn is not one of a town laid low by rampant diphtheria but one of business as usual in spite of that awful...
By seeking to transform postcolonial Africans into entrepreneurs, neoliberal economic interventions misread Africa’s past. One outcome of this has been a profound transformation in the very...
The coronavirus pandemic, like other disasters, will no doubt provide opportunities to some people to make money. When many get killed, there are always a few...
The coronavirus crisis could provide humanity with an opportunity to overthrow the Western bourgeois model imposed by capitalism globally. It has changed our consumer habits and...
To claim that society is in moral decline is a misnomer, argues JORG WIEGRATZ. Instead, we need to note that the moral structure and moral grammar...
The rise of a global technology industry to support financial services, known as fin-tech, has grown enormously in Africa in the last decade. Across the continent,...
We are witnessing the operation of a more fully fledged, institutionalised, normalised capitalist social order, and an intensification and deepening of processes that will render these...
Public discourse on morality and individual virtue has long been emphasised. But as JÖRG WIEGRATZ argues, they only tell part of the story of human beings...
