Bobi Wine is alive. Uganda’s leading opposition figure is currently in hiding following last week’s elections, releasing ...
Today, Russian rap music made by women coalesces around Zhenski rap, a sub-genre that emerged in the mid-1990s. Starting with ...
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Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei acknowledged in mid-January that thousands of people were killed during recent protests. The internet shutdown engineered by the authorities means that details of ...
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The musician and activist writes about the freedom fighters, writers, poets and musicians who have inspired her ...
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Anshuman Mondal is a professor of modern literature at the University of East Anglia. His new book Racism and ‘Free Speech’ ...
They invited the Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah to appear at the festival. Abdel-Fattah is a novelist, ...
As the Iranian government cracks down violently on protest, we go on the trail of a spray-painting grandmother who secretly ...