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Born in Southern Rhodesia, self-made intellectual Edson Sithole (1935–1975?) was a lawyer (the first Black person in southern Africa to earn a doctorate in law), an anticolonial nationalist, and a trailblazing pan-Africanist with one of the strongest voices in Zimbabwe's liberation movement.

Bursting with flavor and packing a powerful nutritional punch, tomatoes, peppers, squash, and other fruiting vegetables produce their prized harvests after flowering.

In September 2013, Xi Jinping announced the launch of a Chinese-led megaproject, the Belt and Road Initiative, that would transform Asia's position within the global economy. Some ten years on, the BRI, while facing significant obstacles, has gone from strength to strength.

The Well-Planned Vegetable Garden covers everything you need to know, from optimizing space and selecting seeds and equipment to planting, maintaining, and harvesting crops, rounded out with a perpetual garden calendar using Jean-Martin Fortier’s organic, biointensive method.

TikTok, Huawei, semiconductors, AI … Technology has become a field of fierce geopolitical competition, especially between the United States and China. What drives this particular rivalry, and how are these two tech superpowers trying to curb each other's innovation systems?