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What Can be Done? Fighting Climate Change is Acting For a Fairer World.

What Can be Done? Fighting Climate Change is Acting For a Fairer World.

Camilla Macciani, MA Migration and Diaspora Studies Each time we hear news about climate change, the language of catastrophe is deployed and it seems that there is little hope to “save the planet”. However, there are many effective ways to act in order to make a difference. The last Intergovernmental

21st Century Healthcare

21st Century Healthcare

Frederika Ofong, MA International Journalisms It’s freshers’ week. You’ve just moved to London and you’re adjusting nicely; you’ve found the nearest pizza spot on Deliveroo, downloaded the UNiDAYS app for those life-saving discount codes, and topped up your halls laundry allowance on Circuit. Thanks to the

Like a Mosquito. Fight the HIV Stigma on World AIDS Day.

Like a Mosquito. Fight the HIV Stigma on World AIDS Day.

Sara Komaiszko, MA Media in Development 2018 has been a significant year in the history of HIV/AIDS. After 40 years of the epidemic, the last 10 years of research has shown evidence that people living with HIV and taking medication cannot pass on the virus. This has been the

Interview with Jude Blay Yawson, Co-Writer of "Rise Up" and Former SOAS Student

Interview with Jude Blay Yawson, Co-Writer of "Rise Up" and Former SOAS Student

Interviewed by Kitty Walsh, BA History and World Philosophies With the publication last month of the best-selling story of grime artist Stormzy’s meteoric rise to fame, Jude Blay Yawson has been everywhere, from Jonathan Ross, BBC1, The Financial Times, Capital to Kiss FM and The Guardian (among others). Here,

An interview with Dr. Kehinde Andrews: Empire and Black Radicalism

An interview with Dr. Kehinde Andrews: Empire and Black Radicalism

Interviewed by Sumayya Hasan Dr Kehinde Andrews is Associate Professor in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Birmingham City University. In 2013, Dr Andrews published his first book “Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement”. He is now Director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of

POSTCARDS TO SOAS: Egypt

POSTCARDS TO SOAS: Egypt

By: Amina Abubakar Ali, BA English Literature and Arabic I am a British-Somali, currently studying Arabic, on my year abroad in Alexandria, Egypt. Before I started my year abroad, my friends and family questioned how I felt, as a Black woman travelling to the Arab world. My experience overall has

Film Review: The Hate You Give

Film Review: The Hate You Give

Raw emotion is guaranteed to be evoked all the way through this film. Based on the novel by Angie Thomas, the story is centred around Starr, a girl tangled between two worlds – one white, the other black. Each world demands a different version of her, and her purpose is to