The #JerusalemaDanceChallenge showed how Pan African styles can be forged: Fenómenos do Semba from Angola. Courtesy Fenómenos do Semba/Facebook A year has passed since an Angolan dance troupe called Fenómenos do Semba released a video of themselves dancing in a courtyard in Luanda to the South African hit song Jerusalema by Master KG. With over …
How DRC’s colonial legacy forged a nexus between ethnicity, territory and conflict: Internally displaced persons gather for government briefing in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the scene of violent clashes between rival communities since 2019. Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images Throughout history, ethnic stereotypes have been used to justify mass violence, …
D-Day 75 years on: ‘special relationship’ forged on the beaches of France now poised to enter a new era: In 1944 the blimps above London were barrage balloons – in 2019 the blimp above the capital is a giant caricature of the US president, Donald Trump, as a petulant baby. In 1944, British and American …