Written by Melissa Rossi While many Rio de Janeiro residents, known as cariocas, are looking forward to the exciting games, colorful banners, and renovated stadiums of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in the city, other less fortunate Brazilians will remember the event forever with grief and indignation over losing their homes for […]
Press Gallery: Blue clues about Karachi
Press Gallery Blue clues about Karachi Saeed Minhas Islamabad: Lower House of the parliament is busy doing what it can do at best, debating while knowing very well that this proverbial playing to the gallery game is making hardly any difference in the killing grounds of Karachi and Quetta where dead bodies continue to pile […]
Press Gallery: How many Holy Cows we can afford?
Press Gallery How many Holy Cows we can afford? Saeed Minhas Islamabad: When the lines blurred and when it all transformed is yet to be determined by historians but what living mortals of this land of pure are looking at now is that not only MQM but even Noon Leaguers are asking to repeal […]
Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias
In the past couple of weeks, the Mozambican blogosphere played host to debate on the role of hip-hop and the nature of legitimate “social critique”. This debate actually started two years ago [pt], except that in past weeks it has reached a new fervor. One group of influential voices in the Mozambican blogosphere until recently […]
Kinaxixi Market: Going, going, gone!
Similar to what happened to the beautiful Palace D. Ana Joaquina, the historic Kinaxixi Market was knocked down after a long wait, time in which proposals ranged from restoration to demolition. Many, like Diuska [pt], still do not believe that they saw the market being destroyed: Esse emblemático local de Luanda, de onde a minha avó recorda […]