The poverty of the neo-colonial imagination – Columbus and Rhodes

By Nico Cloete. During the week of 13 July 2015, I was in Buenos Aires for a workshop led by Fernando Calderón, the former head of the UN Human Development Reports in Latin America. The meeting was part of a Latin American-African project on rethinking development, linked to the recently published book by Manuel Castells, Reconceptualizing Development in the Global Information Age [1], in which South Africa was one of five case studies. Read more...