Nearly fifty years ago, a Guyanese professor –the great Walter Rodney- wrote a book that has served as the hymn book for students of development studies ever since. The title is as enlightening as it is indicting. My thought got provoked in the recent few weeks by both the social and mainstream media, and…
Discourse on the sociability of technology suggests that like no other time in the history of mankind, the current century presents an opportunity for accelerated evolution of mankind. There seems to be a consensus that there is going to be an upgraded human being, coupled with an overwhelming view that the human being is going…
On the 29h of September 2020, the world marked the inaugural International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, which was designated by the FAO on the 19th of December 2019. Coming in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a time when wasting food is not an option. The ravages of…
In contemporary times, there have been phenomenal developments in food processing, and general changes in lifestyle which have in part been accelerated and necessitated by the Covid-19 outbreak. It is argued here that the wake of COVID-19 will see a world so different from whatever we have known, and this could be the vice that…