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The World War on Democracy By John Pilger

Kimpavitapress — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:26:37 +0000

Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s Colonial Office film about the Chagos islanders, a tiny creole nation living midway between Africa and Asia in the Indian Ocean. The camera panned across thriving villages, a church, a school, a hospital, set in a phenomenon of natural beauty and peace. Lisette remembers the producer saying to her and her teenage friends, “Keep smiling girls!”

Hiphop Artist from DRC wins the Fair Play Anti Corruption Youth Voices Award

Kimpavitapress — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:16:03 +0000

Congolese artist Emma Katya has won the Fair Play Anti Corruption Youth Voices Award with his track ‘How long’. The song talks about the current situation in the city of Goma and the hope for a better future while at the same time trying to deal with the pain from the past and the daily struggle for everybody to survive.

Humanitarian Art Manifesto 2004-2010 By Lida Sherafatmand

Kimpavitapress — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:22:06 +0000

In 2004 Lida wrote an art manifesto to express her vision in art. Since then there are artists from over 20 countries who have joint this manifesto as they share the same vision. They form today an international art movement.

Haiti, Aristide, Fanmi Lavalass: Being a call to reclaim history, humanity, Africa, the commons By Jacques Depelchin

Kimpavitapress — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:49:41 +0000

www.otabenga.org

A call to foes
who plug their ears hoping
not to hear their conscience’s call
for fidelity
solidarity
with Haiti

A call to friends
Wringing their hands
Waiting to follow the brave
Sufficiently outraged
To risk everything
To make humanity
one
healed
in Haiti

Emma Katya & Maisha soul: Recorded in DRCongo/Goma(Peace and Solidarity)

Kimpavitapress — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:59:35 +0000

World literature must interact

Kimpavitapress — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:59:34 +0000

By Henry Munene

When Ola Rotimi penned The Gods are not to Blame, which is loosely based on the Greek mythology-inspired play by Sophocles — Oedipus Rex — there was uproar among critics in Africa. The argument was that, Rotimi should have delved deep into our repertoire of myths for more relevant stuff than the Greek mythology. But looking at the world today, I think this debate needs to be looked at from more perspectives.

Back and Forth from Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to Humanity By Jacques Depelchin

Kimpavitapress — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:56:02 +0000

www.otabenga.org

A poem linking Israel’s December 2008 to January 2009 siege of Gaza to Haiti.

First , not quite, but we have to start somewhere,
There were the Arawaks, the Caribs and the Amerindians
Then their land became known as Hispaniola,
As Saint Domingue, as the economic jewel
Of French overseas possessions
Thanks to Africans kidnapped, chained, shipped
Processed, codified, stamped as property
While always knowing they belonged
To no one but humanity
And through fidelity to humanity
Turned Saint Domingue into Haiti
Fraternity, equality and liberty
Their only motto

Sri Lanka reconciliation : Kuan Yin : She who harkens to the cries of the world

Kimpavitapress — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:50:19 +0000

By Rene Wadlow*

Wise in using skilful means

In every corner of the world

She manifests her countless forms

Sri Lanka: After the final round of armed violence: a need for a vision of the future. Citizens of the World call for creative responses to the challenge of new government structures.

Video: The Symphony Orchestra from Kinshasa in D.R.congo

Kimpavitapress — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:45:45 +0000