MAKHUDU SEFARA | Bordering on madness: why do we fight over lines in the sand?

The Ukraine conflict shows how a line on a map, separating people of the same culture and language, can start a war

24 February 2022 - 20:04

“What’s in a name?” William Shakespeare once asked in Romeo and Juliet before concluding: “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” The point is the name doesn’t matter more than the quality of something...

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