ONE Arts and Music Blogger Hannah Elansary interviews the ladies behind the Last Song Before the War, a documentary of the Festival au Desert in Mali. As Northern Mali continues to face instability, music serves as a powerful driver of cultural unification. The riveting feature-length documentary, The Last Song Before the War, captures the importance
The story behind our new favorite product – Bureh Belts! When Bureh Co-Founder Dan Heyman needed a belt last minute, he didn’t expect it to inspire a fashion-forward, socially conscious movement. Launched this past fall, Bureh now inspires employment and entrepreneurship across Sierra Leone, an African country otherwise lacking in self-start-up and Westernized business opportunities.
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Elizabeth Kabach with her family I am a community health volunteer from Batuisa. If any accidents happen, they usually call me to see if I can help. But the road to my place is very bad. Here, we don’t have cars, we only use bicycles. If anybody is sick and you want to carry them
Erik Charas is a campaigning journalist in Mozambique. He was recently arrested by local officials for asking government leaders difficult questions about shady deals done in Mozambique’s natural resources extraction sector. Whether “Africa keeps its promise” to its people, the theme of this year’s World Economic Forum in Cape Town, depends in large part on
Since December 2011, Uganda’s traditional donors led by the World Bank indefinitely withheld their aid on account of runaway corruption. As a result of some of the reforms the government has just undertaken, this week several countries are in reviewing whether to reinstate the aid or stay away a bit longer to push the government to undertake more reforms. The funds involved amount to USD$300 million and for Uganda’s economy, that is not pocket change.
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