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3 Jun 2018

Fin 24 reports on waste pickers project

Informal waste pickers in South Africa have been committed to improving the environment as well as their livelihoods. Waste pickers ...

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3 Jun 2018

Frank Ferro reports on waste pickers for the South African Broadcasting Coporation

The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s segment documents the impact of privatisation of recycling on the waste picker ...

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1 Jun 2018

Poetry and Policy: Commonwealth Writers at the Commonwealth People’s Forum

Opening and closing CPF, storytelling acted as both a vehicle to ask and a way of answering the questions of renewal explored during ...

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31 May 2018

He Put me in a Bubble by Marwa Haitham Melham

In a few moments, you will hear a loud noise like a shot from a high cavernous space. The echo will be massive. But you […]

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31 May 2018

Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018 shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has been announced. This year there were 5,100 entries from 48 Commonwealth ...

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31 May 2018

Commonwealth Civil Society Forum on Health

The Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting (CHMM), held on 20 May 2018, provided an opportunity for member countries to share their ...

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31 May 2018

Marking memories at the Migration Museum

‘We are here because you were there’, declare black words on a yellow banner hanging from the ceiling at the Migration Museum in ...

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29 May 2018

Marking Memories at the Migration Museum

On 2 February 2018, 45 people gathered at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus Bookshop to celebrate the arrival of the ...

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23 May 2018

2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Shortlist

With a record number of entries, Commonwealth Writers has just announced this year’s shortlist. From almost 6,000 entries, up fifty ...

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30 Apr 2018

We Mark Your Memory: Writing from the Descendants of Indenture

To mark the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire (2017-2020) this volume brings together, for the first time, ...

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