This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by Addie Leak, a freelance translator based in France. Moreover, the idea itself of classifying writers[...]
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“It is more important to buy a sjambok than a plough” was the advice the prosperous Charlie Muller gave to the young farmer Dick Turner. The sjambok, a long whip[...]
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The story of the global pharmaceutical industry’s complicity in the AIDS related deaths of millions of Africans, Asians and Latin Americans is a story that, like politics and religion, gets[...]
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Photo Source: hassanmusa.com [U]ne image, dans le fond, c’est comme une bouteille à la mer. J’écris un message que je mets dans une bouteille, que je lance à la mer. Elle[...]
Photo Source: hassanmusa.com [A]n image, deep down, is like a bottle thrown into the sea. I write a message that I put into a bottle, that I throw to the sea.[...]
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An earlier, abbreviated version of this piece appeared previously on Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/when-revolution-comes-israel-2013121112851708923.html The Hunger Games franchise has been hailed for spreading a new hopeful message of revolution to millennials[...]
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(Articulo en español) Oscar López Rivera is a freedom fighter for the independence of Puerto Rico. He has the unenviable distinction of being the longest-held Puerto Rican political prisoner in[...]
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Photo Credit: © Lara Dotson-Renta, 2013 (San Juan, Puerto Rico) (Article in English) Oscar López Rivera es un luchador por la independencia de Puerto Rico. Tiene la distinción nada envidiable[...]
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(Read the English version below) J’ai rencontré Jilali Hamham à Angers quelques mois après la parution de son premier roman, MachiAdam chez Rivages/Noir. Il m’a fait visiter sa ville, il[...]
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[L]’idée même de classer les écrivains par langue est déjà pour moi une idée assez provinciale. Je ne suis pas un écrivain de langue française, ni francophone, je suis un[...]
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Issues of immigration, refugees, and asylum continue to blur the definition of national borders and call for a renewed debate on human rights. The Postcolonialist supports continued conversations on such[...]
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Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte Australian woman who lives in Melbourne. She is the current National Indigenous Organiser for the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). She has previously worked in[...]
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There is an overwhelming sense of pride that comes with being South African. Wherever I go in the world, the shadow cast by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela envelops me and my[...]
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Recently elected to the Académie française, Dany Laferrière is a Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist. The Postcolonialist editor Pénélope Cormier interviewed him on October 10, 2013, just before his candidacy was announced. An English translation of the interview[...]
Una masa casi indefinible de cuerpos en descomposición cubre el fondo del Océano Atlántico y se extiende a lo largo de las noventa millas entre La Habana y Miami. Ya[...]
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Em ensaio sobre os encontros e desencontros da vida cotidiana, Margaret Chillemi observa que os encontros afetuosos são como devires carregados de potências que nos tornam mais fortes e resistentes[...]
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“Civil War doesn’t start when countrymen raise their weapons against each other. It starts when they lose their humanity,” commented Egypt’s notorious political satirist Bassem Youssef, following the military dispersal[...]
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In his new documentary, God Loves Uganda (2013), director Rodger Ross Williams trains a sharply focused lens on the Evangelical missionaries travelling from Missouri to “The Pearl of Africa” to[...]
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Krudas Cubensi (Las Krudas) son un grupo de rap formado en Cuba durante la década de los 90 con tres integrantes: Odaymara Cuesta, Olivia Prendes, y Odalys Cuesta (conocida como[...]
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Dans notre monde multipolaire, il nous faut, pour espérer avoir une vue d’ensemble, multiplier les points de vue et appréhender la notion de « postcolonialisme » selon des lieux – géographiques, linguistiques[...]
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(Photo Source: Arthur Urbano) * Translated from Lampedusa protest sign for Letta’s visit: http://www.giovanilampedusa.it/notizie/681-immigrati-barroso-letta-contestazioni-lampedusa.html Why should we care now? Now that it makes American news? Now that it’s translated into English?[...]
Florcy Morisset is the founder and curator of Vivant Art Collection, a Philadelphia-based art gallery dedicated to displaying and promoting Haitian and other Caribbean art in the United States. Haiti,[...]
