How to Build a Library
EDUCATION: Efforts to renovate Kenya’s historic libraries reveal how fragile democracies manipulate cultural spaces for control, suppression, and neocolonial interests.
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School of life
EDUCATION: Claire Simons’ Cannes «Specials» presentation reminds us of the possible concretisation of the utopian ideal.
Green electricity from Africa
NAMINIA: Dependence on Russian gas, Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and provoked supply crises have put energy at the center of European politics. But in Namibia, the plan is now to focus on ‘green’ electricity where seawater is desalinated and produces hydrogen through electrolysis.
Life after work
LABOUR: Why being irrelevant could be worse than being exploited in the new world of automation and Artificial Intelligence.
«Even if we can’t see the light in the tunnel, we still have to resist and fight for a better world»
HUMAN idff Oslo: Festival Director Ketil Magnussen discusses the 2023 festival programme, the role of the festival director, the controversy around Two Kids a Day, and balanced presentations in the face of war in Europe.
A politically correct decolonisation ideology?
MODERNISATION: Nigerian professor Olùfèmi Táíwò examines power relations between former colonised and colonialists. All states struggle to adapt modern institutions to their own history, cultural context, and ideological climate. But can the demand for decolonizing language become absurd?
«We will never take for granted how wonderful it is to be able to be together, in person, in a cinema»
OPEN CITY: Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Director María Palacios Cruz on the first post-pandemic edition, as well as her own introductions to creative documentaries and more.
A school of thinkers
EDUCATION: One teacher’s determination in turning the fortunes of an inner-city plagued by urban decay, sectarian aggression, poverty and drugs.
When hope means finding a way out
EDUCATION: A portrait of optimism in the harshest of environments with Morocco’s nomadic Oulad Boukais Tribe.