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Wednesday, 3 April 2024

WORLD SAYS GOODBYE TO A CARIBBEAN LITERARY GIANT

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Maryse Condé, the acclaimed Guadeloupean author, has died in France at the age of 90 - her death eliciting an outpouring of tributes across ...
Sunday, 24 March 2024

BRAZILIAN FILM FEST PACKS IN 30-PLUS FILMS IN PARIS

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Spring is the season of film festivals in France, and one of the highlights is the always-stimulating Brazilian Film Festival of Paris, with...
Thursday, 15 February 2024

MARLEY FILM: MUSIC AND MEMORIES OF TROUBLED TIMES

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Judging from the audience reactions at a screening of Bob Marley: One Love in Brussels, the music may touch international viewers, but the m...
Monday, 25 September 2023

RWANDA MEMORIALS ADDED TO WORLD HERITAGE LIST

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Forty-two new sites, including memorials of the Rwandan genocide, have been inscribed on the World Heritage List, UNESCO (the United Nations...
Wednesday, 17 May 2023

INTERVIEW: THE MAKING OF A GHANAIAN SHORT FILM

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Some movie scenes keep replaying in one’s mind long after one has left the cinema, and this is certainly true of Moon Over Aburi , a short f...
Monday, 27 March 2023

AFRICAN FILMS OF UNESCO-NETFLIX SCHEME TO STREAM

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It’s a new direction for UNESCO, getting involved in movies, so to speak. The United Nations' cultural agency and Netflix - the global...
Thursday, 23 February 2023

SECOND AFRICAN BOOK FAIR OF PARIS HERALDS SPRING

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In autumn 2021, hundreds of book lovers gathered in one of the “chicest” areas of France’s capital to attend the inaugural African Book Fair...
Saturday, 18 February 2023

PRINCETON HONOURS TONI MORRISON WITH EXHIBITION

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Acclaimed American writer and 1993 Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will be the focus of a “revelatory exhibition” at Princeton University Libra...
Sunday, 29 January 2023

KOREAN JAZZ SINGER YOUN SUN NAH ON ART AND SOUL

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When the parents of Korean jazz singer Youn Sun Nah realized that the COVID-19 pandemic had begun, they called and urged her to return to Se...
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Southern World Arts News is an online cultural magazine devoted to the arts of the global south. Here you can read informative profiles of artists from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, South Asia and elsewhere, who are working all over the world. We also portray writers, filmmakers, painters, musicians and others who use their art to promote respect for human rights. Founder Alecia McKenzie is a writer and painter. Associate Editor DJ Cle is a musician and environmentalist. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Contact: swaninformation@gmail.com.
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