Safiya Bashir

Mar 19, 2024 | ukinvestormagazine.co.uk | Safiya Bashir |Safiya focuses

With the sixth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) to be held early next month, the relationship between Chinese and African governments has come under renewed scrutiny to establish whether it is mutually beneficial for both parties, or if China is simply taking advantage of Africa’s raw materials.

Dec 18, 2023 | shado-mag.com | Safiya Bashir |Natasha Lee |MOB Kitchen

When I first moved to Amsterdam just over six years ago, it quickly became clear to me that The Stedelijk Museum was one of the city’s most important cultural institutions. Next to the Van Gogh and Rijksmuseum, The Stedelijk towers over Museumplein with its vast white walls, strangely resembling a giant bathtub. Home to over 90,000 works, the gallery houses work by world famous artists including Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and as it turns out … thousands more white men.

Sep 24, 2023 | shado-mag.com | Safiya Bashir

Anyone who’s listened to The Butterfly Effect podcast knows that the birth of PornHub in the 00s forever changed our relationship with the porn industry. Leading to an explosion of free pornography, the site allowed anyone with the internet to access erotica films online. As revolutionary as this was, it came with many issues, including but not limited to: addiction, exploitation and an increase in sex trafficking.

Sep 17, 2023 | shado-mag.com | Safiya Bashir

Steppin’ Into Tomorrow is a local collective that has shifted its intentions to champion diverse spaces and challenge structures of power, privilege and exclusion. Maurice Dharampal, who’s a core member of the team, sat down with me to share how they are ensuring their events go beyond hedonism to become more intentional, political and thoughtful.

Sep 6, 2023 | shado-mag.com | Safiya Bashir |Natasha Lee |MOB Kitchen

Dance Dance Revolutionshado and KALTBLUT magazine are taking three of Europe’s biggest cities, London, Berlin and Amsterdam, and investigating how and if young people are turning to music collectives as safe spaces of political community that traditional politics is failing to provide.