WEEK 2, SEM 2 2022 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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‘Sons of the Clouds’: Oral tradition and resistance in Africa’s last colony
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estern Sahara, a territory situated in the North-West of Africa’s Maghreb, has been left behind by history. A victim of Moroccan ideas of national restoration and Spanish colonial objectives, the nation, which is home to almost 200,000 Indigenous Saharawi people, still struggles to decolonise. At the now notorious Berlin Conference of 198485, fourteen European nations sought to carve up, as King Leopold II put it,
“This Magnificent African Cake”. During this ‘scramble for Africa’, convened by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, each member state was endowed with territories whose borders were artificially drawn for the convenience of mineral, rubber, and timber extraction. Western Sahara would be one of these territories.
Alex Whitehead writes. Continued on page 14
Est. 1929
NEWS, CULTURE & ANALYSIS
Cross-cultural depictions of Christianity
ALSO IN THIS EDITION: Close encounters of the ‘faith’ kind - p. 8
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hen the day of Pentecost was being celebrated, all of them were together in one place. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign languages. When that sound came, a crowd quickly gathered, startled because each one heard the disciples speaking in his own language.
By Khanh Tran and Emily Scarlis. p. 12
Learning humanness: Malcolm X and Confucius - p. 11
Dogs eat grapes - p. 13 The State of the Environment is grim - p.19
