The senseless US-Israel war has caused economic tremors around the world and sucked all of us into an unprecedented crisis characterised by soaring oil prices, the wanton destruction of infrastructure, the killing of innocent people, a humanitarian crisis and uncertainty

Rasool is perhaps one of the few South African political figures able to articulate the global consequences of misused narratives

This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)

Horrifying as they were, the events of 7 October were the latest twist in a violent cycle triggered in the distant past