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“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 [...]

This story was first published on JournAfrica.For Ngũgĩ, the estate of writing and thinking definitely go hand-in-glove, resulting in substance and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

According to the National Health Service (NHS), which provides victims with specialist service centres located up and down the country, it is the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

„Schwarz-Rot-Gold“ depicts the lives of black Germans with different social, political and ethnic backgrounds. Besides being successful [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Remember when your mother bought your clothes a little too big so that you could grow into them?Perhaps you don’t. Whether you remember this or not [...]

In fact, there are hundreds of shrines to Saraswati (Benzaiten) alone, and innumerable representations of Lakshmi, Indra, Brahma (Bonten), Ganesha (Shoten), Yama (Enma), Garuda, and other deities. Goddess Saraswati is depicted and venerated not [...]

If you’ve ever sat at a bus stop and found yourself being tipped forward by the seat, or leaned back against a wall only to have a sharp window ledge stab you in the back, [...]

„Schwarz-Rot-Gold“ portraits the lifes of black Germans with different social, political and ethnic backgorunds. Besides of being succesful as [...]

Underdog is a technically masterful slav(e) rebellion of another kind. Without resorting to digital tricks and without anthropomorphizing his [...]