Tag: culture
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Africa Writes Festival 2018 @ The British Library
Africa Writes at a glance from Africa Writes on Vimeo. I had been keeping an eye on the Africa Writes programme and was able to make it for a day andcto attend 7th edition Festival, from Friday 29 June to Sunday 1 July 2018. Africa Writes has a team of people from the Royal African Society […]
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From the pages of “The Handsworth Times”, a novel by Sharon Duggal
This is a extract from 2016 novel The Handsworth Times by Sharon Duggal, set in the early ’80s in the rioting Birmingham area and in the middle of a job crisis. I found it quite an easy reading, although I got somehow absorbed into this family tragedy some controversial aspects came out of it and […]
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#Art # Freedom #Hope
Dedico este espaço à apresentção breve de um projecto que adorei e que merece ser divulgado. Assim se apresenta o eclético artista: «Creio que me podes chamar DZzzz, Gavião, Fly, The Night Fly, Saco, Nasty-O, Cucumber Slice, Zura, Zurara, e Dzzzzura que eu …reconhecerei o teu chamado! Mas se queres mesmo saber a minha mãe chama-me, sempre […]
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“The Annwyn’s Secret” by Claudine Giovannoni
I was pleased to read on the author’s blog that one of her recent books, Il Segreto degli Annwyn, has been translated from Italian into English. The Annwyn’s Secret is a novel set in the XXIII century and the future scenario it presents is not as positive as one could possibly hope for. In fairness, some may find […]
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Lingue dominanti e resistenza, una poesia/ Languages of power and resistance, a poem
Non so se sia realmente uno dei suoi intenzionali scopi, ma leggendo la seguente poesia ho percepito un riferimento alle lingue europee imposte nel mondo. Secondo meccanismi di potere e supremazia, fu data la lingua a chi ne aveva già una (o più di una) e non ne aveva un reale bisogno. Tuttavia, le lingue e le […]
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Is racism striking back again?
This is something I thought I would share. Any reference to real facts or persons is not purely coincidental. The recent episodes have been pushing it under the spotlight but, in all fairness, it doesn’t seem that racism is spreading out “again” just like a contagious virus. It’s always been there and it has never […]
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