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February 15th, 2017
“From rabble-rousers to wise women”
in:Humans, Arts
by:Abdelrahman Ibrahim
This story was first published on The Niles. Dahab Al-Madina was born in Al-Fashir in 1932 and lived the life of a hakkama, a respected yet also feared poet who traditionally sets a moral code [...]
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February 13th, 2017
Ultrashort-wave radio tackles Islamists
in:Humans, Arts
by:Daniel Mützel
They have been honoured for their radio programme, which broadcasts in local refugee camps, with the Raif Badawi Award.
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January 13th, 2017
Refugees find their voice through theatre
in:Humans, Arts
by:Judith Vonberg
Over £40 million was removed from the ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) budget last year alone and in May this year, the government rejected an [...]
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December 19th, 2016
Tom Tykwer: "Africa is so foreign to us because it is so rarely mentioned"
in:Arts
by:Nicole Sagener
fairplanet: Mr Tykwer, you set up the One Fine Day association with your wife Marie in 2008. It supports young Kenyan filmmakers with workshops, [...]
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December 07th, 2016
Street art protests in Tunisia
in:Humans, Arts
by:Sabri Zghidi
This story was first published on Correspondents. Ghassan Bouizi, head of the General Union of Tunisian Students, climbed upon the recently erected statue of former President Habib Bourguiba in [...]
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November 14th, 2016
Gimme shelter
in:Humans, Arts, Technology
by:Vanessa Ellingham
“No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land,” writes Warsan Shire. The same could be said for refugee accommodation: no one asks their [...]
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November 07th, 2016
Kenyan author robbed of the Nobel Prize in Literature
in:Humans, Arts
by:Chuma Nwokolo
This story was first published on JournAfrica. For Ngũgĩ, the estate of writing and thinking definitely go hand-in-glove, resulting in substance [...]
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October 12th, 2016
1000 Portraits From Sudan
in:Humans, Arts
partner:Journafrica
JournAfrica: Ahmad, when and how did the idea for 1,000 Portraits From Sudan get born? Ahmad Abushakeema: One day, I simply noticed the lack of documentation of the wonderful and beautiful [...]
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October 03rd, 2016
Literature in Ghana: Between two worlds
in:Humans, Arts
partner:Journafrica
Her own experiences of coping with a foreign culture still inspires Amma Darko's works. Darko's latest book also reflects her own life story. "Between Two Worlds" is [...]
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August 29th, 2016
A "playful" way to fight for LGBT rights
in:Humans, Arts
by:Pablo Pérez Álvarez
Through the political struggle LGBT are slowly gaining rights in different countries, but in Peru an organization has decided to use art as a vehicle for their demands and, mainly, to get [...]
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August 15th, 2016
Kite flying is a dying sport
in:Arts
by:Jose Kalathil
People of all ages and religions fly them with a vengeance in an attempt to cut each other's kite lines, either by letting the cutting line loose at high speed or by pulling the line in a [...]
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July 18th, 2016
FGM is a crime in the UK
in:Humans, Arts
by:Federica Tedeschi
According to the National Health Service (NHS), which provides victims with specialist service centres located up and down the country, it is the [...]
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July 06th, 2016
Sudan turns trash to treasure in maiden recycling festival
in:Humans, Arts
by:Bob Koigi
More than 5,000 tonnes of waste is produced daily in Khartoum which is home to some 6 million inhabitants. But limited resources by the authorities [...]
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July 04th, 2016
Where Love Is Illegal
in:Humans, Arts
by:Vanessa Ellingham
The project has also become an online platform where LGBT people around the world can submit their stories of identity and survival. The mix of Hammond’s professional polaroids [...]
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May 25th, 2016
Zimbabwe’s roadside sculpture market
in:Humans, Arts
by:Rosemary Musvipwa
The world of sculpture has not been left behind in the endeavour to break entrepreneurial boundaries to make a living. There has been an increase in the number of [...]
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May 02nd, 2016
How Michael Jackson helped to pull Quechua out of the darkness
in:Humans, Arts
by:Pablo Pérez Álvarez
Quechua is the most spoken Andean indigenous language. It was the lingua franca in the Inca Empire and it’s spoken by around 10 million people [...]
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March 23rd, 2016
A step ahead to reconciliation in Peru
in:Humans, Arts
by:Pablo Pérez Álvarez
The war caused, according the report made by a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), almost 70,000 deaths, between 12,000 and 15,000 disappeared y over 600,000 displaced people, as a result of leftist [...]
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March 02nd, 2016
Being black in Germany
in:Humans, Arts
by:Ama Lorenz
"Schwarz-Rot-Gold" depicts the lives of black Germans with different social, political and ethnic backgrounds. Besides being successful [...]
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February 08th, 2016
Salute and the not-so-silent supporter
in:Arts
by:Vanessa Ellingham
When Tommie Smith and John Carlos made this gesture after coming first and third respectively in the men’s 200m final at the Mexico City Olympics [...]
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December 19th, 2015
Malawi goes Grammy
in:Humans, Arts
by:Ama Lorenz
In summer this year, fairplanet reported about the Central Prison of Malawi. Ian Brennan and the Italian documentary filmmaker and photographer Marilena Delli were granted special access by the head [...]
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