Posts tagged United States of America
The People in the Trees: Hanya Yanagihara’s Novel on the Colonization Narrative

The People in the Trees is a gripping book from start to finish and a chilling reminder of the need for a strong reflective lens on colonization, militant capitalism and their lingering effects in contemporary society…

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Cyminology - The Very TCK German Jazz Band

The experimentation taking place with poetry, instruments and musical styles show that music and poetry practices across cultures can be complementary in creating a syncretic and dynamic approach to the art form…

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Abhijit Banerjee – Bringing the Poor to the Center of Development

What Banerjee advocates for is not a singular solution to poverty which is globally implemented, but a contextualized approach, where poverty is studied in every community, and programs used to mitigate poverty are tailored to those socioeconomic conditions…

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Lupita Nyong'o — Mexican and Kenyan Superstar

She became a star of Kenyan television in ‘Shuga’, an MTV/UNICEF-backed series that looked at sexual relationships among youth in Nairobi, aiming to promote HIV awareness and safe sex via storytelling…

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