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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Oiwan Lam |Janine Mendes-Franco |Pamela Ephraim |Filip Noubel
This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. On March 19, 2025, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was detained along with around 105 other municipal officials and politicians on the alleged crimes of corruption and aiding a terrorist organisation, in what Human Rights Watch has called an attempt to suppress legitimate political engagement.
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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu |Filip Noubel |Mong Palatino
This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development projects abroad. Find more stories here. When Chinese President Xi Jinping stood before African leaders at the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing in September and promised a greener, more sustainable future, the applause was loud.
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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Pamela Ephraim |Mohamed Mohamud |Mong Palatino |Filip Noubel
On April 9, Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) barred radio and television stations in the country from airing a new trending song, “Tell Your Papa,” by rapper Eedris Abdulkareem, citing its “objectionable nature.” The Afrobeat song, which was released on April 6, has its lyrics in Nigerian Pidgin English and Yoruba and is directed at Seyi Tinubu, the son of President Bola Tinubu, calling on him to “tell his papa” of the worsening socio-economic conditions in Nigeria and also...
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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Mong Palatino |Sonia Awale |Qian Sun
Chinese president Xi Jinping has declared a monopoly on narratives not only about today's China but also about its ancient and more recent past. In that process, any diverging narrative or piece of historical testimony that could contradict the grand official narrative is erased and censored. Yet, historical memory has managed to survive in Chinese society to this day.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
tol.org | Filip Noubel
The movies of the 1930s redefined society, including gender roles. From Global Voices. Czechoslovakia was a major film-producing nation in the ‘30s – a symbol of how it evolved from a colonized territory to a new nation redefining its multiple identities. A part of its best cinema is now available for free on a new YouTube channel.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
es.globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Filip Noubel
Las diferentes versiones de la lengua francesa que se hablan en los cuatro rincones del mundo no siempre se parecen. En nuestra sección “Las palabras tienen algo que decir”, rendimos homenaje a las palabras o expresiones que son específicas a una región, un país y una comunidad, y también las intraducibles que hay en francés y que se traducen a medias, y palabras francesas que pasan de otros idiomas y no se traducen, y que a veces hasta toman un nuevo sentido.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
es.globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel |Mariela Arnst
Checoslovaquia fue un gran productor de importantes producciones cinematográficas en la década de 1930, un símbolo de cómo la nación evolucionó de ser un territorio colonizado a una nueva nación que redefinía su identidad múltiple. Parte de su mejor cine ahora está disponible gratuitamente en un nuevo canal de YouTube.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
globalvoices.org | Filip Noubel
Czechoslovakia was a major film producing nation in the 1930s — a symbol of how it evolved from a colonized territory to a new nation redefining its multiple identity. Part of its best cinema is now available for free on a new YouTube channel. When Czechoslovakia was created in 1918 after the dismantling of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it had to define new codes to shape a freshly assembled identity of different ethnic groups and languages.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
everand.com | Filip Noubel
Originally published on Global Voices Czechoslovakia was a major film producing nation in the 1930s — a symbol of how it evolved from a colonized territory to a new nation redefining its multiple identity. Part of its best cinema is now available for free on a new YouTube channel. When Czechoslovakia was created in 1918 after the dismantling of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it had to define new codes to shape a freshly assembled identity of different ethnic groups and languages.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
tolerance.ca | Filip Noubel
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