Global Voices · Local perspectives for a global audience
The Global Voices Summit is an international gathering on digital media, knowledge, and activism from a Global Majority perspective. Join us at the Hotel Yak & Yeti in Kathmandu, Nepal on December 6-7, for two days of connection, collaboration and conversation with journalists, activists, technologists, and others from around the world.
A journey into African music · Global Voices
This also includes the state of African music, in a world recovering from COVID-19, the impact of the pandemic on African artists or the music culture in different communities. A journey in African music was conceptualized by Global Voices Sub-Saharan African editors, Nwachukwu Egbunike and Njeri Wangari. Both, being poets, perfectly understand ...
The USSR's legacy 30 years on - Global Voices
Oct 7, 2021 · The USSR's legacy 30 years on. Image by Giovana Fleck, used with permission. December 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a country that lasted 79 years and covered about one sixth of the earth. Fifteen independent states have emerged from it, as well as a growing list of unrecognized ...
What Is Global Voices?
STICHTING GLOBAL VOICESKranenburgweg 135 A2583 ER The HagueNetherlandsRSIN No: 818855605. What Is Global Voices? Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, and human rights activists founded in 2004. Together, we leverage the power of the internet to tell stories that build...
How Morocco’s Atlas Lions made history at the 2022 World Cup
Dec 27, 2022 · The Atlas Lions made history at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The Morocco national football team was not only the first team from an African country to qualify for the FIFA World Cup semi-finals, they were also the only team from an Arab country. On December 10, 2022, they will forever remain etched in the minds of football fans the world over.
#EndSARS: A youth movement to end police brutality in Nigeria
Oct 23, 2020 · As of October 9, the hashtag #EndSARS hadracked up2.4 million tweets and was the number one Twitter trending topic in several countries. Since then, Nigerian youth have risen up en masse to wage war against police brutality. #EndSARS protests have sprung up in at least 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states, including Abuja, the federal capital, and Lagos.
Chile: The Legacy of the 1960 Earthquake in Valdivia
Feb 28, 2010 · On May 22, 1960, the 9.5 magnitude earthquake struck the epicenter near the city of Cañete. However, Valdivia was the hardest hit locality with nearly 40% of its building destroyed and leaving close to 20,000 homeless. Many current users of citizen media are too young to have experienced the 1960 quake, but some like Mauro Barrientos ...
Volunteer as a Translator · Global Voices Lingua
Volunteer as a Translator. Members of the Lingua community at the Global Voices citizen media summit in Cebu, Philippines. 2015. Photo by Jer Clarke. CC BY-NC 2.0. The dozens of language sites at Global Voices are made possible by the generosity of the Lingua project’s hundreds of volunteers, who donate their spare time to translate stories ...
Preserving Africa’s musical heritage by combining traditional folk ...
Sep 27, 2021 · Archiving East Africa's folk music. Huey Tracey is perhaps one of the most renowned ethnomusicologists who, together with his wife Barbara Tracey, made over 35,000 recordings of African folk music between the 1920s and the 1970s. He later founded the International Library of African Music ( ILAM) — the largest repository of African music in the world which preserves thousands of historical ...
What happened to Hong Kong protesters three years after the …
Jul 19, 2022 · It is published on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement with HKFP. Three years after months of mass protests and unrest rocked the city of Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020, city officials insist they have restored stability and predict a bright future for its people. Over a million people took to the street in 2019 to protest against ...