A popular television dating show is helping many in China change their negative views of Africans, writes Leigh-Ann Worrell, 26, a Commonwealth Correspondent from St. Thomas in Barbados. She describes how personal interactions also help counter misguided stereotypes. When it comes to understanding people and culture, myopic stereotypes are the order of the day in China. …

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Overcoming the effects of colonisation and building equality means creating peace and justice for all members of society, writes Bonolo Madibe, 20, a Correspondent from South Africa now living in the UK. Donald Trump’s uneducated, divisive and, quite frankly, fascist views have been accompanied by those of Oxford scholar Ntokozo Qwabe. Recently, Qwabe made headline …

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