Q&A: Africans Won’t Just Be on Receiving End of Arts and Culture
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Christi van der Westhuizen interviews MIKE VAN GRAAN, playwright and activist
CAPE TOWN, Oct 15 (IPS) – Global initiatives have in recent years stressed the contribution that arts and culture can make to development. This has led African and European artists, bureaucrats and policy makers to [...]
MOROCCO: The Berber Dance Is Over
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By Daan Bauwens
RABAT, Aug 13 (IPS) – The satellite receiver has speeded up the process of wiping out the cultural heritage of Morocco’s Berbers. Old traditions are now dying out under the influence of television imams.
Berbers are an indigenous people of North Africa. There are an estimated [...]
