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 […]
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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 […]
Fear and superstition in Oaxaca
The historical origins of La Santa Muerte (Saint Death) in Mexico are obscure but the cult, now more popular than ever, has millions of followers. This strikes an unsettling chord with the country’s plague of murderous narco-related violence. Sean Sheehan Myriam Lamrani considers this confluence of the spiritual-poetic […]
Zoogenetics, large-scale production and demand
For hundreds of millions of poor rural households, livestock remain a key asset, often meeting multiple needs, and enabling livelihoods to be built in some of the world’s harshest environments. Roberto Salomón The livestock sector is undergoing dramatic changes as large-scale production expands in response to surging demand […]
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 […]
















