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The value of a thousand narratives: reflections on the Commonwealth People’s Forum 2018
There I was, pacing the streets of one of the most impressive cities in the world. I was running late for an 8am meeting with […]
Commonwealth People’s Forum 2018: a case for renewal
2012 brings the Foundation back to the beginnings of its call for the renewal of the Commonwealth. When the Foundation was re-launched ...
Ben Okri’s electrifying keynote on ending exclusion
Inclusion is at the heart of Sustainable Development Goal 16, but exclusion has become accepted across the Commonwealth. How can ...
Commonwealth People’s Forum 2018 in pictures
Award-winning photographer Vicki Couchman provided photo coverage throughout the three days of the Commonwealth People’s Forum 2018. ...
Poem for the Commonwealth 2018 by Karlo Mila
We gather here and feel the weight of the world on our shoulders. It does not feel like we’ve inherited commonwealth. But rather common ...
So Many Islands: an anthology of stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans
Marlon James, winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, writes in his introduction to So Many Islands that the collection represents ‘real ...
The spirit of solidarity at the Commonwealth People’s Forum 2018
Ben Okri, renowned writer and poet will kick off three days of the Commownealth People’s Forum 2018. Citizens are, he says, living ...
The power of stories at the Commonwealth People’s Forum 2018
Gaiutra Bahadur’s essay in We Mark Your Memory, a forthcoming anthology of writing by descendants of indenture, segues from Britain’s ...
The inaugural Festival of Commonwealth Film
Something amazing happens when I watch a film. I sit down, it begins, and if it’s any good, I’m transported to another ...
25 Notes on Becoming by Boluwatife Afolabi
I I write to tell you that the walls of my bones are made of contention and I am always situated between desires that threaten […]
