18 Non-Government Organisations will appear at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, in Arusha, Tanzania, today, as amici curiae (friends of the court) pertaining to the matter of Lohé Issa Konaté, editor of Burkina Faso weekly newspaper L’Ouragan,...
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Dear PEN members, Dear friends, As many of you know, Haroon Siddiqui (former International Board member) and I were in India for three weeks in January, for the launch of the new Delhi PEN Centre and to visit the older...
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Set against the stark beauty of contemporary Paris, Invisible Others is a story about loss, intimacy, and the inability to communicate despite best intentions. Provocative, sensual and fiercely honest, the novel captures our feeble attempts at deciphering those fleeting moments...
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1985. In a mountain village in Lesotho, a father rages as a mother weeps. Shot dead: their only daughter Rose, a teacher, and her husband Jake, an activist and poet. South Africa’s laws forced them into exile, while hooded gunmen...
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