Tag Archives: Togo

17Oct/26

Why America Is Losing Global Talent

October 17, 2026EconomyAcademic disciplines, Anthropology, Articles, Australia, Bird migration, Bush, Canada, Culture, Demographic economics, Demography, Dobbs, El Salvador, Genetic genealogy, Germany, Ghana, Globalization, Honduras, Human migration, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, United Statesadmin

America’s Gendered Exit: Why 40% of Young Women Want to Leave the U.S.

Sat Oct. 16, 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — Global migration aspirations have entered a period of structural recalibration, as the proportion of adults worldwide desiring to relocate permanently dipped to 15% in 2025 after sustaining a record peak of 16% between 2021 and 2024. Although the United States remains the single most desired destination globally, its attraction has fallen to a nearly two-decade low of 15% in 2025, down from 24% in the 2007–2009 period. This cooling demand is particularly striking in traditional feeder corridors such as Latin America and the Caribbean (dropping from 33% to 28%) and Southeast Asia (falling from 18% to 12%), with Honduras recording a dramatic 35-percentage-point collapse in U.S. preference. Instead of defaulting to North America, potential migrants are turning toward multipolar regional networks—favoring Japan in Southeast Asia, Germany in the Middle East, and Spain in Europe—while Canada solidly maintains its position as the second most preferred global destination at 9% (representing ~85 million adults). Continue reading →

04Sep/26

The UN Vote to Correct the Map

September 4, 2026EnvironmentArno Peters, Bernhard Jenny, Bojan, Cartography, Geopolitics, Gerardus Mercator, Gish, Global North and Global South, Greenland, Hegemony, International relations theory, Marxist theory, Robert Dussey, Russia, Togo, Tom Patterson, United States, Washington, Worldviewadmin

The Map as a Mental Model

The core objective of this guide is to deconstruct the hegemonic visuality of the 16th-century world map—a navigation tool that has metastasized into a standard classroom fixture, inadvertently codifying a biased global worldview. As critical geographers, we recognize that a map is never a neutral reflection of reality; it is a mental model that dictates the “geopolitical imaginary” of students from their earliest years of schooling. By distorting the scale of continents, maps influence how the power, agency, and place of diverse civilizations are internalized.As the “Correct the Map” campaign articulates in its core philosophy:”A fair world begins with a fair map.”When our primary visual tools marginalize the Global South, they perpetuate a form of cartographic silencing . To dismantle this bias, we must first analyze the technical “structural flaws” that transformed a revolutionary maritime aid into a pillar of Eurocentric hegemony. Continue reading →

05Sep/23

France is becoming a pariah in Africa

September 5, 2023PoliticsAfrica, Anti-French sentiment, Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Kabul, Laurent Gbagbo, Libya, Mali, Neocolonialism, Niger, Nigeria, Patrice Lumumba, Sani Abacha, Sylvanus Olympio, Thomas Sankara, Togoadmin

05 September 2023 /Politics/ — France’s history of interference in Africa is a complex and controversial issue. There is no doubt that France has been involved in a number of coups and regime change operations, and that these actions have had a negative impact on many African countries. The bombing of Libya in 2011 is just one example of this. Continue reading →