Dar es Salaam, Nov. 5 -- PRIOR to the existence of the term Global South in the vocabulary, the world was divided into three broad identical categories. The First World consisted of the United States and its Western allies.

The Second World comprised the Soviet Union and its satellite states in the Eastern Bloc. And the Third World, which represented the liberated, non-aligned, or underdeveloped nations in a fractured century.

The term Global South distinguishes geographic regions experiencing economic inequality and the lasting effects of colonialism. An American playwright turned writer Carl Oglesby coined it during a period of po- litical clarity.

The Vietnam War revealed the flaws of American liberalism, and Oglesby – once a ...