Swart Donkey

It is not a coincidence that it is easier to make money if you are born in America. Compounding isn’t just something that happens on your in...

Pushing paper is a core part of finding your way in the modern jungle. My friend Karabo wrote a guest post for my blog a few years ago where...

When I moved to London in 2008, there were two main obstacles to overcome. (1) Get a Visa, and (2) Get a Job. For the Visa, I used a company...

PK and “The Power of One” created a vivid picture of overcoming struggle, and of Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarship, for me. Cecil John Rhode...

I last lived in Cape Town in 2006. I was there for my four years of university, and two and a half years of work. Sitting around a dinner ta...

I am navigating all the hoops involved in country and continent hopping. I did it in the other direction in 2008, aged 28, when all I had to...

Having grown up in Apartheid South Africa, I am a supporter of the Four Freedoms of Movement – Goods, Capital, Services, and Labour. Wealth...

Bryan Caplan has teamed up with cartoonist Zach Weinersmith to produce a fantastic book called “Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Imm...

Trev: I got my British Passport a year before the Brexit Referendum. As someone who believes the C20th introduction of passport control wa...

My surname is Black. It isn't based on Black(smith) like many surnames that are descriptive of what an ancestor did. In this case (so t...

Germanische Migration Deutschland wurde erst nach dem Fall Napoleons 1814 zu einem Land. Eine Konföderation von 39 Staaten wurde gebi...

Languages like English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa are kitchen languages. They are combinations of various inputs. That is why they are so col...

Melilla Border If continents are defined as discrete landmasses, then there are four continents ( Afro-Eurasia , Americas, Australia ...

For obvious reasons, Colonialism is associated with its most recent incarnation. A distant land with a superiority complex, on a mixture of...

The Lapita were seafarers who lived around 3,000 years ago, exploring islands hundreds of miles apart. Tonga is made up of 169 is...

Civil war has often followed independence from foreign conquerors. Tajikistan became an independent nation following the 1991 disso...

While (and before) Phoenicians were colonising the Mediterranean, our most adventurous ancestors were heading far east. Micronesian ...

Colonial legacies include language, religion, food, mannerisms and other deep cultural ties. Independence doesn't mean unrelated...

Celtic Britons  were pushed North from central Europe, arriving on the island in the Iron Ages. Romans first attempted a conquest in the fi...

Timor-Leste ( formerly East Timor ) is just to the north of Australia, separated by the Timor Sea. The first humans arrived 42,000 y...