Facts never speak for themselves

By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe
August 02, 2025

Dr. Selwyn R. CudjoeI was reminded of EH Carr’s What Is History? when I read Kevin Baldeosingh’s letter, “Teach fact-based African history”.

He excoriated the Emancipation Support Committee (ESC) for not spending “a single cent from the millions given to them by [the] government to commission such a [history] book” which he wanted them to write from a Euro-centric point of view (Express, August 4).
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The New Age Hitler

By Raffique Shah
August 02, 2025

Raffique ShahBy the time US President Donald Trump is finished with us, and here I mean the world as we know it now, our world will have changed likely to a backward civilisation, if there is anything civil about reversing progress.

I make this pronouncement boldly as a projection, not prediction, since I don’t believe in hocus-pocus. But he is deep into it and so are many of his “Jim Jones-like cultist followers”.
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