Culture and ethics

Harare arts festival stands up against isolationism

May 2010 -

Despite two elections, a cholera epidemic and ongoing inflation HIFA is still going strong. With the increased interest from outside of Zimbabwe it is clear that the festival is now seen as an important platform.

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Achille Mbembe: "Donors have a simple notion of development"

September 2009 -

Achille Mbembe about the cruel confrontation between money and ideas.

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Child rights advocacy through pop music in Sierra Leone

July 2009 -

Children's Advocacy Production, a ngo in Freetown, Sierra Leone, firmly believes that every child should memorise the Child Rights Act. So they are composing an album of songs to encourage kids to not only learn the Act but also hum it.

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Laborious debut for Kenian puppet satire television show

June 2009 -

Nowadays in Kenia, the climate for satire is not very welcoming. The brand-new XYZ-Show seems to suffer.

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Kamran Ashtari: "Internet is Iran's only public forum"

April 2009 -

Do satellite television, the Internet and digital film offer an escape from censorship in a country like Iran? This what the viewer starts to wonder while watching the Iranian documentary Head Wind.

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Koulsy Lamko on exotic man

maart 2009 -

Teylers Museum in Haarlem hosts from January until May 2009 the exibition 'De exotische mens. Andere culturen als amusement'. ('Exotic Man. Other Cultures as Entertainment'.) Writer Koulsy Lamko, originally from Chad, gives a personal impression.

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Murali Nair about The Crossing

March 2009 -

Murali Nair explains the evolution of The Crossing, one of 22 short films that were produced on behalf of the UNHR on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.

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Stories on Human Rights – sixty years of human rights in film

March 2009 -

Twenty-two well-known film makers and visual artists made short films on the theme of human rights. This film project marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube.

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Winternachten lecture 2009 by Nuruddin Farah

January 2009 -

What does living in two worlds mean to an immigrant? Somali writer Nuruddin Farah speaks from experience.

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Perihan Magden: "If people offend my country I do feel Turkish"

December 2008 -

Perihan Magden (Istanbul, 1960) latest novel Who were we running from, mother is about the fears she felt when she was prosecuted and taunted because of her support of a conscientious objector. "I feared for my life," says Magden in an interview about her books, her life and the power of a columnist.

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