The first part of this presentation dealt with how the endless war in eastern Congo came…
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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,…
Survivors Uncensored: Voices from Rwanda and the Rwandan Diaspora
Most reporting on the Rwandan 1994 atrocities was false and driven by the Clinton administration’s need…
Book Review: The Soul of Uganda Through Song by Michiel van Oosterhout
The Soul of Uganda Through Song by the Dutch journalist, music archivist and documentary filmmaker, Michiel van…
Laughter is an everyday form of resistance – Spire
June 2017. The death of Carol Atuhairwe, the smiling lady whose story of battling throat cancer…
Confessions of an Economic Hitman TRANSCEND VIDEOS BY John Perkins
Short Documentary According to Perkins, he began writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man in the 1980s, but “threats…
Non-Fiction: The Lie of Global Prosperity by Seth Donnelly
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work…
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…
Black November: “Our Greatest Resistance is Our Life” By Wesley Lima
Negra, a Pernambuco woman, a trans woman and elected São Paulo state deputy for the Socialism…
BlackKKKlansman: injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
Spike Lee adopted the Africana tradition of story-telling in his award-winning film about a 1970s Black…
Nigeria's Futur: An Interview with Noo Saro-Wiwa about her book
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service Looking for Transwonderland (travels in Nigeria)[i] is the title of…
They have no faith. They have no Loyalty. They are fearless. Money is their new God. They are the new Rich in Africa. By: Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN
In 2012 Africa became the fastest growing continent in the world with the highest number of…
The whitest lie By Abhirami Sriram
Toni Morrison’s most recent work of fiction, God Help the Child, begins and ends with an…
Lessons From the Bamemba Tribe
I’ve been intrigued by this tribe ever since I heard about them while listening to…
Urbain, Olivier, editor. Music and Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics. 2008. I.B. Tauris, UK, in collaboration with the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Tokyo, Japan. BY THERESA WOLFWOOD. DIRECTOR, THE BARNARD-BOECKER CENTRE FOUNDATION
“Music has an inexplicable way of elevating humankind to its noblest action.” Youssou N´Dour, Senegalese singer…
Belles Lettres. A tous ceux qui sont nés d’une femme…
depuis belle lurette que les femmes se battent pour l’amélioration de leur condition humaine. Et, pas…
We Stand With Our Sister: Stop the Attacks on Myrlande Liberis-Pavert and the Lavalas Movement
A Statement from Haiti Action Committee On Friday, January 17, it was reported by news agencies…