I recently received an email from my Editor at The Prisma, expressing surprise that I have been able to write so many times about Covid-19 during 2020, without being “boring”! Steve Latham I’m not sure if it was a compliment, or just a comment. But, like many people, […]
In Focus
In Focus
Losing the plot
In Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud, critics are seeing conspiracy in another one of the President’s conspiracy theories. Darrin Burgess You could say that Donald Trump’s road to the White House began with a conspiracy, or the theory of one, at least. He first garnered attention as […]
Cuba and its defiance against the blockade and Covid
Without losing progress in the battle against the pandemic, the production and sales of food constitute the fundamental link for Cuba’s development in the context of the so-called new normal. Roberto F. Campos It is important to stimulate mini industries in search of m unicipal provisions, since it […]
The psychology of power in the US elections
After the US election, we are waiting for the transfer of power. But Trump doesn’t seem willing to concede. Instead he is seeking spurious grounds for legal challenges to the vote. Steve Latham This seems typical of his emotional immaturity, what his niece, a psychotherapist, terms his ‘narcissistic […]
A classic tale of life in the city
When Cyprian Ekwensi’s “People of the city” was first published in the 1950s, it was the second Nigerian novel to be published in Britain, predating Chinua Achebe’s hugely influential “Things fall apart”. Sean Sheehan Reading it now, republished nearly seventy years after it was written, serves to confirm […]
















