The wave of protests that has gripped north Africa since 2010 has presented an opportunity for social, cultural and political movements that were languishing in a region stifled by fossilised dictatorships. One of these is the movement advocating for the rights of the Amazigh [...]

“A moment of waltzing: it is timeless, it is a universal language that brings a sense of peace to an otherwise hostile world.”

The Rock School in Mitrovica, a town in northern Kosovo split between Serbs and Albanians, is fighting to close the divide through music. Youngsters from the two communities play together in ‘mixed bands’, providing some with an opportunity to cross the bridge and to speak to the ‘other’ for the first [...]

Over the last few months, music from both the historical repertoire of protest songs as well as from popular culture and football stadiums are going viral on social media and breathing new life into musical resistance.

Uganda’s Comfort Dog Project is the first initiative in Africa to use dogs as a form of therapy for survivors trying to heal from the trauma of war.

“Rejection of the ‘other’ has always existed, but something has changed. Now the hate is open and unabashed, free of all restraint.”