Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba

THE recent memorials to the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany as well as the way the Palestinians of Gaza have resisted attempts to wipe them out has made me think about the centuries-old attempts to eliminate Africans.
No! I do not think this is exaggerating what has happened to people of African descent during centuries of humiliation and exploitation. What happened was mass murder, torture on a mega-industrial scale and centuries of expecting people of African descent to be grateful for what we have.
Significant among the genocidal attacks on Africans was, of the course, the transatlantic slave trade which ran from the 15th to the 19th century.

As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE