Tax Attorney
Mary A. Smith
Tax Attorney
Mary Smith is a tax attorney with over 15 years of experience, focusing on advising clients about financial decision-making and tax implications.
Global Business / Economy
Is 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Making a Generation of Consumers Financially Illiterate — or Just Giving Them Access They Didn't Have Before?The colonial era didn't just extract resources and impose borders — it embedded itself in languages, legal systems, educational curricula, and ways of knowing that persist long after independence. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Achille Mbembe, and Walter Mignolo debate whether decolonization is a genuine intellectual and political project underway, or a word that has been so broadly applied it has lost the specificity needed to do any real work.