Congo and coltan, personal and political
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Congo and coltan, personal and political

Congo has long been a victim of Western greed and violence, whether King Leopold’s atrocities; Belgium’s terrorising Force Publique with its mass amputation of labourers’ hands and feet; murderous political chicanery - including the assassination of independence leader Patrice Lumumba; and mining companies’ ruthless political and economic corruption.

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A novel way to see moving images
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A novel way to see moving images

If you plan to see Sir Isaac Julien’s exhibition at Tate Britain, What Freedom Is To Me, you might need to set aside three-and-a-half  hours.

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From the Black Death to Covid
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From the Black Death to Covid

From the Black Death to Covid, BreaDth sets out to dramatise pandemics and the lives of older people and the racial minorities who care for them.

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Lenny Henry’s one-man Windrush play
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Lenny Henry’s one-man Windrush play

“… and that’s how I got to be here … in custody.”

And that’s the Windrush scandal, written by and starring Sir Lenny Henry at the Bush Theatre.

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Ai Weiwei: Designed to provoke
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Ai Weiwei: Designed to provoke

A huge snake extends across the wall. Pleasingly colourful. But look closer. There’s another element: the serpent is made of scores of life vests.

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Taking theatre off-grid
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Taking theatre off-grid

“Let’s take this show off the grid”, says Lydia West as a signal for the Barbican Centre lights to switch off and for 10 on-stage cyclists to start cranking up the power.

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Hate radio
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Hate radio

Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines played a deadly role in the 1984 Rwandan genocide and its call to kill has become emblematic for hate speech.

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The nine-year-old who learned to kill or be killed
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The nine-year-old who learned to kill or be killed

A nine-year-old boy is captured by a murderous militia and made to watch and later commit gruesome murders. As a child and later a commanding member of the gang he commits atrocious murders, torture, rapes. Should he be treated as a victim or a perpetrator?

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The rise and fall of a chainsaw tower
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The rise and fall of a chainsaw tower

A tower of 700 captured chainsaws is one of the most striking images in Delikado, a documentary about a group of environmental defenders in The Philippines.

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