The result has been the creation of what many commentators now call the "left behind" working class, who feel politically abandoned and voiceless.
It has shed much meaningful light on how to make visibility and voice to the invisible and voiceless.
"I know some who have said, 'I don't want to do anything that may bring me face-to-face with the government.' But what's art if you can't actually speak for the voiceless?" said Chris Nwobu, a Lagos-based photographer whose collection captures the agonising silence of the Chibok girls amid the media frenzy that initially surrounded their abduction.
The voiceless last robot inhabitant of a deserted Earth?
Smoking rates being far higher among the poor, it's a move difficult to reconcile with Brownback's statement that society does best "when our hearts are tender to what God is tender to – the poor, the voiceless, the powerless".
As an advocate for the voiceless, the International Bar Association is dedicated to empowering activists on the ground who are witnessing these atrocities with the ability to bring criminals to justice".
Since June, the Women's Legal Aid Centre, funded by One World Action, has been working in Mtabila camp training dozens of refugee volunteers in legal rights so that they can advocate on behalf of peers who, after years of being stateless and voiceless, are unfamiliar with the notion of holding authorities to account.
The houseless are also largely voiceless.
Truly this is a voiceless poem".
Indeed, rap stars often give voice to the voiceless, but it is not always what we want to hear.
But whereas Poles have doggedly defended their history against falsifiers, the Circassians have been all but voiceless.
