On the 20th of July 2024, South Sudan nearly pulled off one of the greatest basketball upsets of all time. Taking the US national team to the very last second in an extremely close game, South Sudan needed just one more shot to win the game and seal an historic Read more
Introduction For the last couple of years, I have been working as a research technician in the environmental science department at the university of Liverpool. A lot of my job involved lab work, working with academics and students, prepping field work, using and managing specialist equipment, and some external client Read more
These last few months I have been blessed to learn many cool and interesting skills and, through my job as a research technician at the University of Liverpool, have been able to apply them to the real world in many cool places. From learning to fly drones to biology lab Read more
On Tuesday 23rd of March the Ever Given cargo ship became stuck in the Suez Canal in Egypt which is one of the biggest and most important shipping routes in the world. About 12% of global trade passes through the Suez Canal. This is because the Canal connects the Mediterranean Read more
I’m tired of the word lockdown. It’s a word that has taken a strangle hold on global consciousness, becoming ubiquitous and finding its way into every text, facetime, and mask to mask conversation. Amongst the most used words of 2020, it has become a constant fixture in everyday thought and Read more
The Wretched of the Earth is a significant and important piece of revolutionary literature written by Frantz Fanon and published in 1961. The book analyses the significant roles that race, class, and violence play in acquiring freedom. In ‘The Wretched of the Earth’, Fanon explores the ways in which colonised Read more
“While colonialism in its formal sense might have been dismantled, the colonial state has not…The official apparatus might have been removed, but the political, economic, and cultural links established by colonial domination still remain with some alterations” [1] The colonial system is one of economic and political domination of a Read more