Wednesday, 25 May 2016

PARIS LOOKS AT LIFE AND WORK OF A FIERCE WRITER

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He wrote fiery novels and essays that decried injustice and racism, and now nearly 30 years after his death, Paris is hosting a conference ...
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

FRANCE HOSTS LONG LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN 'WEEK'

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For the third year in a row, France is hosting a Latin America and Caribbean Week, with the aim of highlighting historical and diplomatic l...
Tuesday, 3 May 2016

MEXICAN FILM DISSECTS NIGHTMARE OF HEALTH CARE

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By Dimitri Keramitas A Monster with a Thousand Heads (Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas) , the Mexican film directed by Rodrigo Pla, falls in ...
Friday, 29 April 2016

WHITE HOUSE HOSTING CONCERT FOR INT'L JAZZ DAY

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The fifth annual International Jazz Day will be celebrated around the world on April 30, with U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Mi...
Sunday, 24 April 2016

PEN WORLD VOICES FEST FOCUSES ON MEXICO, RIGHTS

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The 12th annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, taking place April 25 to May 1 in New York, puts Mexico in the spo...
Thursday, 14 April 2016

SINGER SHOLA ADISA-FARRAR: DRAWING ON HER ROOTS

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It’s been a long time in the making, but Lost Myself , the debut jazz album by Shola Adisa-Farrar, is well worth the wait. The young Jamaic...
Wednesday, 13 April 2016

DOGS TAKE THE CAKE AT BRAZILIAN FILM FEST IN PARIS

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The gripping Brazilian drama Mundo Cão (Dog’s World) has won the Public’s Prize at the18th annual Brazilian Film Festival in Paris, which ...
Monday, 21 March 2016

PARIS BOOK FAIR BOOSTS WRITERS AND LIT, AMID FEARS

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Despite the unprecedented security measures and the talk of doom and gloom in the publishing industry, the 2016 Paris Book Fair attracted t...
Tuesday, 1 March 2016

AMERICAN WRITER TONI MORRISON WINS PEN AWARD

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The American writer and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has won the $25,000 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. To...
Thursday, 25 February 2016

COLD WAR GAMES AND THAT PAN-AFRICAN ARTS FEST

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Its goal was to bring together leading intellectuals and artists from Africa and the diaspora, and, 50 years ago, the first Festival Mondia...