Paris, Saturday 5 October 2024
04/10/2024
New post on my newsletter: Gaza, a year later...
NEWSLETTER October 2023 plunged the territory and the world into chaos, as respect for human rights fell to a new low, and the United Nations is powerless... Now what? Melissa Chemam Oct 04, 2024
link:
https://melissa.substack.com/p/gaza-a-year-later
Podcast: Africa between China and the West...
New podcast episode: Spotlight On Africa
What are Africa's economic needs amid rising competition between China and the West?
To listen >>
Link to our webpage https://rfi.my/B0t5.X
Apple podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-are-africas-economic-needs-amid-rising-competition/id1241972991?i=1000671766047
02/10/2024
Surréalisme à 100 ans
Exposition
Surréalisme
4 sept. 2024 - 13 janv. 2025
Centre Pompidou
Paris
Adored the movement as a teenager, still love most of it (apart from the lingering misogyny, but where can we really be free of it?).
Here are a few shots from my visit last week:
I could add so many more...
But these for now.
01/10/2024
Insight into the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Listening All Night To The Rain - an exhibition by John Akomfrah
British Pavilion 2024 - Venice Biennale
Here is a little insight into John Akomfrah's piece for the Venice Biennale 2024 British Pavilion, titled 'Listening All Night To The Rain', something I filmed on Sunday at the art fair...
New music interview: with Blick Bassy
Cameroon's Blick Bassy seeks to unite
new generation of African music makers
Composer, singer and songwriter Blick Bassy makes music that celebrates his multiple identities: as a Cameroonian living between Africa and France, a polyglot, a travelling artist, and a Pan-Africanist. RFI met him in Paris to discuss his latest album, as well as a new project to unite music makers from across the African continent.
read from here: https://www.rfi.fr/en/culture/20240929-cameroon-s-blick-bassy-seeks-to-unite-new-generation-of-african-music-makers
Snapshots from Venezia
I needed a break... to reconnect with beauty and simple joy, away from the news:
Gaza: a year of unbearable crimes
(Jerusalem, September 30, 2024) – The Israeli government’s attacks and unlawful blockade against Gaza have inflicted profound trauma and suffering on Palestinian children, especially those with disabilities, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The Israeli military’s extensive use of explosive weapons has caused serious injuries resulting in permanent disabilities and lifelong scarring for children in Gaza. The 95-page report, “‘They Destroyed What Was Inside Us’: Children with Disabilities Amid Israel’s Attacks on Gaza,” documents that children who have acquired a disability and children who already had a disability in Gaza face a precarious security situation and additional difficulties as they struggle to comply with frequent Israeli army evacuation orders and a lack of effective advance warning of attacks.
The ongoing siege of Gaza, the unlawful obstruction of humanitarian aid, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and damage and destruction of hospitals cause disproportionate harm to children with disabilities, who struggle to access desperately needed medical treatment and supplies, assistive devices, food, and water. They are at particular risk of lasting psychological harm.
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