Europe

Everywhere on the planet, an observation imposes with disturbing evidence: the wealth of the world is shared in a deeply unequal way. As fortunes multiply and billionaires now number hundreds, a majority of men and women struggle to meet the most basic needs. This imbalance, often...

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When diversity calls for reason In all human societies, diversity is both a wealth and a challenge. It requires discernment, mutual respect and a high sense of responsibility in public speaking. The peoples, languages, customs and beliefs that make up a nation are ...

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All over the world, societies invoke freedom, justice and democracy as the foundation of their political legitimacy. But behind these often gallauded words are worrying drifts: the law sometimes becomes the instrument of oppression, justice the arm of power, and democracy a theatre of illusions. From Afghanistan to ...

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In many countries, whether African, European or American, the same phenomenon calls for: whole crowds mobilize behind charismatic leaders — religious gurus, populist politicians or sect leaders — even when their speeches or promises are clearly against their own interests. All over the world, the ...

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The balance sheets tell the story of yesterday, but the markets speculate on tomorrow's. While accounting continues to freeze assets at the price paid sometimes several decades ago, investors ignite around artificial intelligence, valuing start-ups to tens of billions before they even prove their profitability. Between caution...

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American Elector, We write from all over the world, united in the same concern and prayer. We write as we call for help, not for us alone, but for you too. Because your country is not just your country. He has become, whether you like it or not, the spine of...

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Brazil is often presented as a mixed society, a model of multicultural harmony. The supposed fusion of European, African and indigenous heritages would have given rise to a "racial democracy" where differences in colour would hardly weigh in individual trajectories. This national narrative, popularized by intellectual Gilberto Freyre in the 20th century, has long allowed the ...

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In the West Indies, skin colour remains a social and cultural marker inherited from colonization and slavery. From « mulatto » to « chabin », « quarteron » to « Capture », a whole nomenclature has shaped social relations and family alliances, until today. Let us trace the historical origin of ...

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Run to exist Black history in the American continent is made up of deep wounds, visible and invisible chains, segregation and imposed silences. For centuries, the doors of education, politics and economics were closed to them. But in this locked world, a space sometimes opened, fragile and narrow: ...

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Rastafarism and reggae music are not mere artistic or spiritual expressions from Jamaica. They embody one of the most powerful cultural responses of oppressed peoples to injustice, racism and exclusion. This movement, born in the underprivileged neighbourhoods of Kingston in the 1930s, has transformed a local experience of suffering ...

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