Africa
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Memory is a minefield
MEMORY: A journey into the life and experience of a former fighter in the Portuguese colonial war.
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Colonial heritage
COLONIALISM: Two worlds collide during a trip down the Amazon in search of the mixed language Nheengatu, imposed upon indigenous by Portuguese conquerors.
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Democracy in French-speaking Africa
AFRICA: France has strangely managed to preserve hegemony over its former colonies, including the dissemination of knowledge. This book is a much-needed exception, providing the background for understanding the recent coup in Mali.
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WOMEX 20 announces its full 21 film programme, facilitating discovery between music & film industries
The #WOMEX 20 Film Programme has been released in the form of a carefully curated 21 film selections from the biggest conference of the global music scene in the world. In providing a platform for the film industry to reach new markets while exploring additional distribution and production channels, the WOMEX 20 Film Programme also…
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Raw, naked, and masculine
AFRICA: Before, it was the Baroque that seduced Achille Mbembe, now it's brutalism – used as an analytical breakthrough to understand Africa and its relationship to Europe.
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Framing Africa (what is the reality behind the stories we don’t tell?)
AFRICA: A Dutch filmmaker looks to dissect the mechanisms underpinning the dominance of Western perspectives of the Congo and the African continent.
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Flashy Norwegian-supported consumption in Africa
CORRUPTION: We haven't heard much about Luanda Leaks in Norway. Perhaps because it is embarrassing that Statoil paid NOK 420 million to a non-existent research centre owned by Angola's state oil company Sonangol, where Isabel dos Santos was the director until she was fired in November 2017?
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Rolling thunder in Africa’s wild, wild west
COLONIALISM: A mad max-inspired terrain exists on Earth, and it is a no man's land in Mauritania.
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Crises are good business
AFRICA: A considerable number of consultants and commissioned researchers have profited from the crises in the African belt. Sahel has emerged as a crucial area for not only Norway but also for the EU and the USA.