At present the only African brand that is listed among the top global brands is South African Airways; hardly an indigenous African brand.
Tom Koenigs, the head of the United Nations mission, said peacetime conditions in most indigenous areas hardly improved people's lives or expectations of justice.
Alcoholism, jail time, and childhood abuse are hardly uncommon among Canada's indigenous populations.
The symbolism could hardly have been more striking as indigenous Awajún member Eduardo Nayap – in suit, tie and colourful Amazonian feather crown – addressed Peru's new congress last week.
Their stories are hardly unique: hundreds of thousands of "indigenous soldiers" fought against the Axis under the French flag, but their experiences have had at best a marginal place in popular histories of the war.
In the voluminous body of literature that is produced in South Asian countries, in English as well as in about twenty indigenous languages, there is hardly an imaginative text that sympathetically explores the theme of homosexuality.
But these are hardly the only issues facing Canada's Indigenous population, so we asked ten prominent Indigenous figures about what our national leaders should be focusing on during this election.
Because they tend to proceed from lived experiences and historical realities, indigenous notions of rights are hardly abstract.
At the level of personal lifestyle, he was an indefatigable campaigner against tyranny but ran a strictly hierarchical [End Page 76] household, much like a palace, though with hardly the structural checks and balances of model indigenous Yoruba monarchies.
The odds of survival, let alone success, could hardly be more stacked against Berta Cáceres, the Honduran indigenous rights campaigner who has been declared the winner of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize.
