In this edition of The Writer’s Block we talk to Mamle Kabu, a Ghanaian-German writer, about the pressures faced by writers from African countries.
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“I send all dried fruits to the soldiers before they rot / So it can fashion the tongue to speak.” Here are two new poems by Elham Malekpoor, an exiled Iranian poet and LGBT and human rights activist.
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Actress Aster Bedane asked Ethiopia’s Chief of Staff: “Will you really transfer power through elections?” Ethiopia is set to hold its fifth General Election in May 2015, and international election observers have been banned.
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In Ma Thida’s first column for Sampsonia Way, she writes about the lack of a collective dream in her native Myanmar.
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Liza Bogutskaya’s outspokenness against what she sees as Russia’s illegal occupation of Crimea has made her a favorite of pro-Ukrainians online and an enemy of the Russian state administering Crimea.
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The arrest of a dissident artist indicates that Cuba is no closer to yielding its centralized power, despite reforms to the embargo.
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Anoche soñé que todos nos levantábamos para decir No al silencio, porque la libertad de expresión en Honduras estaba con un tanque de oxígeno asechada por la impunidad.
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