Drawing on insights from thinkers such as Karl Marx, Aimé Césaire and Mahatma Gandhi, they pointed out that underdevelopment in the global South was not a natural condition, but a consequence of the way Western powers had organised the world system over hundreds of years.

Even the diversionary fracas on the far side of the room failed to divert him, although the kangas went racing across to deal with it — there was always some kind of a dust up going on.

1 Kings 18:20: So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

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