Azad Essa is a freelance journalist and lecturer based in South Africa. He recently won the ‘Best political blog’ in the South African Blog Awards 2009 and is currently travelling through Europe, trying to expand his horizon, worldview and German language skills.
New Internationalist (NI) workers' co-operative exists to report on issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary to meet the basic needs of all; and to bring to life the people, the ideas and the action in the fight for global justice.