A conference followed by a day of performance to consider hip hop’s role in revolutionary social, political and economic movements across the world.
8-9 July: The power of hip hop
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CATEGORY: Africa
Letter: Eritrea must free imprisoned journalists
On World Press Freedom Day, Index Youth Advisory Board calls for the release of imprisoned journalists in Eritrea and urges the government to end its persecution of media workers
Worst countries for restrictions on religious freedom
Some of the worst countries for religious freedom are Burma, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, China, Eritrea, Iran
Angola: Index condemns jailing of 17 activists for anti-government “rebellion”
Index is appalled at the sentencing of Angolan activists whose “crime” was taking part in a reading group discussing ideas of democracy.
#IndexAwards2016: Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo campaigns against political corruption
Born in 1987, the same year Mugabe became president, Moyo was political from a young age
#IndexAwards2016: Vanessa Berhe is fighting for freedom of expression in Eritrea
Campaigning for a free Eritrea since the age of 16, Vanessa Berhe can even count the Pope as a supporter
Music in Exile: Smockey playlist
Serge Bambara, aka Smockey, is a hip-hop artist, producer and activist within Le Balai Citoyen, or the Citizen’s Broom, a grassroots political movement
Smockey: “Not everyone is lucky enough to have a microphone in front of them”
Searching for “dissident artists” online, you’d be forgiven for thinking they are a purely Chinese or Russian phenomenon. But for every Ai Weiwei
Joint letter on internet shutdown in Uganda
An international coalition of organisations has called for immediate action to condemn the internet shutdown in Uganda
Raymond Joseph: South Africa’s Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill is deeply flawed
With the new year comes a new battle in South Africa as critics hit back at the proposed “draconian” Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill they say doesn’t differentiate “between espionage and an act of journalism”.
Freedom of expression in Africa. Index on Censorship covers free speech, freedom of religion, artistic freedom on the continent of Africa.