Wednesday, 26 January 2022

A FILMMAKER’S INDICTMENT OF EXPLOITATION, VIOLENCE

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By Dimitri Keramitas Few titles are as painfully ironic as that of Thierry Michel’s excellent but wrenching documentary Empire of Silence ...
Friday, 7 January 2022

CALYPSO: A CARIBBEAN BOOKSTORE WARMS UP PARIS

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When you step into Librairie Calypso, it feels like being home. The French capital’s first bookstore for Outre-mer and Caribbean literature ...
Wednesday, 1 December 2021

ICONIC PERFORMER JOSEPHINE BAKER ENTERS PANTHEON

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Legendary singer, dancer and activist Josephine Baker entered the Panthéon - the resting place of France’s “national heroes” - on Nov. 30, w...
Friday, 26 November 2021

UNESCO MEMBER STATES ADOPT RECOMMENDED AI ETHICS

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The member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have agreed on a text of recommended ethi...
Thursday, 25 November 2021

AFRICAN ART FAIR BOUNCES BACK WITH PIZAZZ IN PARIS

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 Art is back with a bang in the French capital. After numerous cancellations throughout 2020 and in the spring of this year because of the...
Saturday, 13 November 2021

UNESCO OBSERVES 75TH ANNIVERSARY, STRESSING PEACE

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Passionate speeches, fervent performances by renowned artists, and the presence of special envoys such as actor Forest Whitaker marked a sig...
Friday, 29 October 2021

FRANCE: TRANSLATING A HARLEM RENAISSANCE WRITER

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Claude McKay is having something of a rebirth  in France, thanks to independent publishers and to translators such as Jean-Baptiste Naudy. ...
Thursday, 21 October 2021

ARTIST ASKS UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS AT PARIS FAIR

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How does injustice make you feel? Do you see yourself as a perpetrator, or as a victim? Is there any such thing as neutrality? These are som...