Our journey to Buenos Aires from London began on a stuffy British Airways flight lasting fifteen very long hours. However almost as soon as we stepped foot on to Argentinean soil our acidic moods evaporated and we were captivated by the enveloping passion of what I consider to be the […]
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Sharing the love of London and Latin America
London’s vibrant Latin music scene has a new vocal star, inner- city primary school music teacher and singer, Holly Holden. Angie Lemon Although born in London’s Shepherd’s Bush, Holly’s songs and music are inspired and shaped by years of travel and a deep love of Latin America where […]
Solidarity with Haiti: Reparations not deportations
It is 200 years since France forced Haiti at gunpoint to pay for the “crime” of overthrowing slavery and winning independence from French colonialism! Today Haitian voices demand reparations and restitution from France. Week of Solidarity. Global Women’s Strike The stories are alarming: Venezuelan immigrants disappeared into El […]
Fiction and documentary: revealing the truth or hiding it
After a long battle with cancer, the well-known film director Luis Ospina died. In 2018 he gave an extensive and exclusive interview to The Prisma and he talked about the unsteady history of cinema in Colombia. Beginning in his native city of Cali he was part of the renaissance that […]
Kifkif: training migrants to tell their own stories
A project in Antwerp trains non-EC migrants in journalism skills to create themselves a voice in mainstream media. Cultural integration is a politically-charged issue in Flanders. (The Prisma memories) _ Graham Douglas Kifkif was founded in Brussels in 2001 as a grass roots organization to fight racism. Its name […]
















