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“I haven’t once spoken my mother tongue Kilokele in the 62 years I’ve lived in Kinshasa. None of my nine children speak it,” says...
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Just like Asterix’s small village held out against the Romans, 2,000 years later in Romania a fight is on to keep Latin alive just...
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A high-rise condominium dubbed “the national photobomber” will continue to loom over a historic Philippine monument after the Supreme Court struck down a bid...
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Paco Sery was a kid banging on tin cans before a job at a Club Med in Ivory Coast opened the way to drumming...
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Piles of rubbish and broken-down cars are being removed from the rundown streets of Conakry, and disgruntled hawkers on the main avenues have been...
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Shrouded by fumes and surrounded by spray cans, Vietnamese graffiti artist Kong conjures his latest masterpiece, a monkey clutching an aerosol, a colour-splashed act...
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Christophe Bouton, a philosophy professor at Montaigne University in Bordeaux, who wrote “The Time of Urgency”, says that democracy is threatened by a contemporary...
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Gu Chen has slept and worked in the same one-room apartment in Beijing’s ancient “hutong” neighbourhood of Beixinqiao all his life. Most mornings, he...
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In Cuba, it sometimes seems time stopped in the 1960s. Despite a succession of sweeping changes in recent years — rapprochement with the US,...
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Clothing factories in Tajikistan are churning out brightly coloured national dresses amid a surge in sales, and it’s not just because of the arrival...