Africa
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Afropessimism, Afrofuturism, and Afropolitanism
AFRICA: For capitalists, disruption opens the door to new power and new revenues: People, society and nature are reduced to raw material. Author Achille Mbembe's horizon is always the broadest possible - the cosmic, earth-historical, and planetary. Despite all the harrowing problems, Africa is conjured up as a vibrant world centre that still has power…
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FIPADOC asks «Is This How People Live?» at 2024 festival
From 19th to 27th January, Biarritz will become the focal point of documentary storytelling with the 6th edition of #Fipadoc. This year, the festival surpasses previous offerings, presenting an impressive lineup of over 140 films, including 25 short films and 5 documentary series, alongside 19 digital experiences. All exist under the 2024 festival theme, «Is…
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The lives of others
AFRICA: Karim Sayad's 2G is an intimate portrait of former people smugglers from Niger.
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Before the fall
RUSSIA How Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenary army, Wagner, grew to become a major tool in Russian foreign policy – murdering its way across Africa and Ukraine.
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Utopias of community
FUTURE: Are we progressing towards an international society that looks after those left out of the conventional job market – and, with wisdom, transitions today's military industry towards civilian duties? It's conceivable that the new BRICS might pave a path away from today's Western ideology.
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Colonial past, today
AFRICA: An exploration of rare archival material that unveils the significance of Algeria's fight for independence and its implications for modern-day Africa.
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Private game reserves – a business concept for species conservation
SOUTH AFRICA: Around 500 South African game reserves represent a spectacular marketplace. But after thirty years, Shamwari Private Game Reserve, for example, now has seven luxury lodges, an explorer camp, a learning centre, a rehabilitation station for young, abandoned or injured animals - and not least a police unit to combat poaching.
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Russia’s Africa Policy
AFRICA: Russia has been very committed to the principle of non-interference and allowed authoritarian regimes to conduct their own politics without setting any political demands for their trade or aid. But they forgave debts to several African countries while signing several military-technical agreements.
