Although they were born half a continent apart, the Mozambican Mia Couto and the Angolan José Eduardo Agualusa are good friends as well as being two of the most respected figures of African literature. They are united by a linguistic homeland—Portuguese—and a similar conception ...
Videos & Publications
War and Authoritarianisms
Under siege
Soy Cámara
Timothy Snyder
A Defence of Freedom: On the Rise of Authoritarianism Today
Svetlana Alexievich
The Voices of History
Masha Gessen
Imagination and Democracy
Marta Peirano and Peter Pomerantsev
Technology, Digital Surveillance, and Disinformation
Timothy Garton Ash
Free speech under attack
Victoria Lomasko and Marta Nin
Other Russias
Judy Dempsey
Is Russia Europe?
Africa as a Story
Kopano Matlwa
South Africa after Apartheid
Aída Bueno Sarduy
Colonial intimacy
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Talk with Anna Guitart
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Africa, Writing and Emancipation
Mia Couto
My Africa
NoViolet Bulawayo and Gemma Parellada
Dialogues for Thinking about Diversity
Taiye Selasi and Xavier Aldekoa
The Afropolitan Condition
Akosua Adoma Owusu
New Voices of African Cinema
Colson Whitehead
A talk with the author of “The Underground Railroad: A Novel”
D'bi.young Anitafrika
Performance of the dub poet during Kosmopolis 2011
Chigozie Obioma
Africa as a story
I am not your periphery
Karo Moret
Stéphanie Bationo, Cheikh Fall, Brock Isaac Muhambya and Thiat
Africa: who Is Leading Social Change?
Koyo Kouoh: "There is a generation that is changing the image of Africa"
Interview with Koyo Kouoh, member of the "Making Africa" exhibition advisory board
African Cyberactivism against Censorship
Carlos Bajo
William Kentridge: “There are fault lines that come from the colonial period throughout the world”
Gemma Parellada
South African artist William Kentridge does not trust those who blindly embrace their own certainties without considering doubts and paradoxes. Ambiguity and contradictions are at the heart of his work, which has grown and transformed to the beat of multifaceted South Africa. We ...
A Tosquelles Glossary
Carles Guerra | Joana Masó | Oriol Malet
Looking for traffic lights in a CAPTCHA
Anna Pacheco
Benjamín Labatut and Eloy Fernández Porta
Outside reason
Historia potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la por
Conversation about the film
Naomi Uman. «Unnamed Film» and «Kalendar» per Marga Almirall
Films available until May 31
The filmmaker Marga Almirall presents Unnamed Film and Kalendar, two films made by the US artist, Naomi Uman, on her arrival in Ukraine, where she lived for ten years.
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