Its rapid growth is largely due to the development of the mining industry, and in particular to the large sites which have transformed this young African country into the one of the main producers of high quality gemstones in the world. Julio Hernández Gaborone, one of the youngest […]
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Rivera, the “writer of the jungle”
José Eustasio Rivera denounced the appalling suffering of the indigenous population of this vast region, lost and abandoned inside the national territory because of the constitutional centrality of 1886. Armando Orozco Tovar It is strange that Jose Eustasio Rivera (b. Neiva-Huilla 1886) died young in New York, not because […]
Rebuilding Colombia, purging the establishment
The Colombian Establishment is in dire need of self-purification if its most visible members are to regain the Casa de Nariño in 2026. German Ayala Osorio* Regardless of whether the government of President Gustavo Petro pushes through the social reforms proposed in his electoral campaign, a narrative is […]
An angel poised on one foot
When Simon Murphy’s “Govanhill” was first published it lost little time in selling out but the good news is that a second edition of 500 copies (five times the number of the first print run) is now available. Sean Sheehan Murphy has been photographing Govanhill, a neighbourhood of […]
The challenges of constructing a truly diverse society
The particular identities are not universal, nor is the concept of ‘identity’ itself universal, but is itself the product of an individualistic, late capitalist modernity. The challenges of living in and constructing a truly pluralistic society are immense. If we are going to accommodate many different lifestyles and worldviews then […]
















