Geopolitics is a farce, a media prop, splashed across think-tank reports and international speeches – even those of politicians from the Global South. Beneath the polished language lies a familiar reality: power and wealth flow outward, while nations of the South remain tethered to external interests.
I learned English in a colonial school, alongside Latin and Greek. Four centuries earlier, Shakespeare wrote The Merchant of Venice. Though fiction, it remains, for me, a guide to banking and finance.
