STEVE HOLLAND, Washington | Saturday THE United States will boycott a UN conference on race if planners insist on including discussions of equating Zionism with racism and reparations for slavery, the White House said on Friday. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said President George W. Bush ”very much wants” the United States to be represented […]
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Peter Culshaw meets Cesaria Evora, the singer who thrives on misery.
Baaba Maal isn’t the first musician to bring traditional African rhythms to a Western audience — but he’s one of the best writes, Robin Denselow.
This is a powerful but gruelling film, one willing to make considerable demands of the viewer writes, Shaun de Waal.
Between true life and cinema,” said the late Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety, “there is only one step.” Then he added, wryly, “As for me, I’m not sure in which direction that step must be taken.” There seems little that is uncertain, however, about his last film, The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun. And, […]
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THE Nigerian subsidiary of Italian oil group ENI on Tuesday signed an agreement with the government to build a 450-megawatt power plant in southern Nigeria, an official statement said. The gas-fired plant, to be built in Kwale in Delta State and expected to cost around $350-million to build, would be expected to come on stream […]
ABOUT 200 angry South African shack dwellers on Wednesday occupied a piece of land in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township, emulating a large-scale land invasion outside Johannesburg earlier this month. Police said the squatters moved on to the private land during the afternoon and demanded the government build them houses. The land invaders measured out plots, […]