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Too Fast to Be a Woman
When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed “she was cheating and had no […]
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Charmant Mushaga: The refugee who has found stardom in Uganda
By Musinguzi Bamuturaki The gifted Congolese guitarist, singer-songwriter and band leader Charmant Mushaga fled to Uganda through Rwanda from DR Congo, his home country […]
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‘‘Women of Allah’ versus Women of Heart – Iran versus USA reality
If Georgia O’Keeffe the American female painter represented a heart of the USA, I am an Iranian female painter representing a heart of Iran. […]
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FIRST PAN AFRICAN FORUM FOR CULTURE AND PEACE “BIENNIAL OF LUANDA” WAS HELD IN ANGOLA
Angolan President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco: “The presence of Angolan youth and youth from other parts of the continent as well as the Diaspora […]
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Documentary on political – art persecution to premiere in Kampala By Gabriel Buule
Courtesy photo of Cranes band where Gitta was a member The tendency of politics falling into collision with the creative art industry didn’t start […]
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Aime Cesaire: (1913 – 2008) A Black Orpheus by Rene Wadlow
My negritude is not a stone, nor deafness flung out against the clamour of the day my negritude is not a white speck of […]
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The Congolese storyteller drawing on African mythology and spirituality for his comic books Ciku Kimeria By Ciku Kimeria
Growing up in Brazzaville, Kiyindou Yamakasi began making comics at a young age sharing them with his primary school friends who would act out the scenes. […]
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is Erich-Maria-Remarque Peace Prize 2019 winner
Every two years since 1991, the city of Osnabrück has awarded the Peace Prize, named after the world-famous writer Erich Maria Remarque, who was […]
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Us: We have met the enemies and they are us
In this review of the American film Us, the author highlights the movie’s core message that most of the times, we, human beings, are our own […]
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ISIS Attacks in DR Congo: A New Phase of a Western Scheme for Resource Plunder
ISIS Attacks in DR Congo: A New Phase of a Western Scheme for Resource Plunder The new president of the Democratic Republic of the […]
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L’histoire de Papa Wemba à l’aube du 24 avril
«Il est des hommes qui nous marquent. Il est des hommes qui nous entrainent. Il est des hommes qui nous illuminent. Papa Wemba, ce […]
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COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE: Pour publication immediate
COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE Pour publication immediate Goma, le 29 Mars 2019. Vernissage ce lundi 1er Avril de l’installation photo – vidéo Transcend d’une dizaine […]
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Confronting Conflict with Creativity
From Chapel Hill to Democratic Republic of Congo, music professor Chérie Rivers Ndaliko empowers students to come together and use creativity as a touchstone […]
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Nonkilling Arts Research Committee Letter: Vol. 3, N. 2 (Mar-Apr 2019)
Bimestrially sent from our site: Nonkilling.org. “Nonkilling art explores the spirit and practice of how to prevent, respond to, and to improve individual, social, and […]
Art & Peace
Books paint contrasting pictures of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
South African liberation struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. EPA-EFE/Jon Hrusha Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape Writings on South African liberation struggle icon Winnie […]