When history is suspended
(In memory of Ernesto Alfabeto Nhamuave) by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa I collected this testimony during a recent road trip to South Africa. Seated at my side was a gentleman in his thirties, with a penetrating gaze, slow movements and a slurred and tired speech, but with a smile upon his lips, hinting at a […]
EU fortifies its mission on North African frontline
Supported by Libya and Tunisia, the European Union is ringing the Mediterranean with deportation camps, Helmut Dietrich reports. “How can you forget the concentration camps built by Italian colonists in Libya into which they deported your great family – the Obeidats? Why don’t you have the self-confidence, why don’t you refuse?” the Libyan intellectual, Abi […]
La Frontera
Klas Lundström finds himself in an isolated corner of the Amazon jungle – where three states collide and their citizens crash-land to a life in limbo. This is no man’s land: the “three-state border” in the northwest of the Amazon – a human, ecological and political melting pot of which the rest of the world has […]
The last words of Fela Anikulapo Kuti
In 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for a week to interview Fela Anikulapo Kuti. On the fifth day, after waiting six hours, Keziah got to speak with Fela, who he remarked kept you in “constant and direct eye contact” and spoke “in short bursts of baritone.” He added, “In the three hours […]
Uncertainty in Cuba after the Death of Hugo Chávez
As the world bids adiós to Hugo Chávez, Ivan García (of Desde La Habana) reports on how questions of ‘¿Y ahora qué?’ will ring out through Cuba as well as Venezuela. For Joel, a 29-year-old engineer, the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez marks a before and after moment in the Cuban political landscape. “It’s too soon to be able […]