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Fanmi Lavalas Presentation, April 6th 2024

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The unifying power of music: The American conductor Kent Nagano and his dream by Winfried Pogorzelski

Music awakens and inspires the inex- haustible creativity of man. It creates mo- ments of happiness, brings people togeth- er, and enables them to better cope with life. Across...

Fanmi Lavalas Presentation, April 6th 2024

Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this transcript of the talk given by...

From Port-aux-Prince to Africa: Unveiling the Haitian Crisis

22 Mar 2024 – In recent past weeks, the situation in Haiti has drawn...

Horror and Hope in Haiti after 20 Years of Occupation

Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service 6 Apr 2024 – The immediate crisis in...

In Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front

Tags: Africa, D.R. Congo, DRC, Genocide, Paul Kagame, Rwanda   Hundreds of thousands of refugees poured into Congo after Paul Kagame seized...

Laughter is an everyday form of resistance – Spire

June 2017. The death of Carol Atuhairwe, the smiling lady whose story of battling throat cancer moved the country. The public fundraised for her...

The enduring legacy of Congolese Franco, 30 years on

Why is a Congolese musician who died three decades ago still one of the best-known entertainers in Africa? Graeme Ewens, author of Congo Colossus,...

Prof. Johan Galtung on the Psychology and Theology of Nuclear Weapons: The Human Factor

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds1RY0AFdzU&w=560&h=315] Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University. He was...

Why some governments fear even teens on TikTok

IN Egypt, teenager Menna Abdel Aziz used social media to ask for protection after a sexual assault. She was arrested on a variety of charges, including...

Arundhati Roy: ‘The Pandemic Is a Portal’

The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next. 3 Apr 2020 – Who can use the...

‘Vulgarity makes the point polite conversation can’t’ — a conversation with Ugandan dissident Stella Nyanzi

Radical Ugandan activist and academic Stella Nyanzi discusses her recent imprisonment, the power of vularity and anti-authoritarian struggle. Phil Wilmot  Appeared on the net April...

Too Fast to Be a Woman

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/782302072" params="color=ff5500" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed...

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 in...

‘‘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....

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...

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 yesterday...

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 dead water on the...

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....

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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