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Daniel Nelson
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Daniel Nelson has covered development issues in Africa and Asia for 50 years and as Editor of Eventslondon.org highlights films, plays, exhibitions, lectures, and TV and radio programmes about the Global South in London
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'Life Support' is a blistering, unflinching, shocking, first-hand account of wartime hospital mayhem in Gaza.
Phone calls from the Gaza apocalypse  — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
Life Support is a doctors’-eye-view of the Israeli attack on Gaza. And what a visceral, appalling view it is.
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July 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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The director of the second Muslim International Film Festival believes cinema can help combat the growth of anti-Muslim hostility, but he’s worried about the future.
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Cinephilia confronts Islamophobia — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
The director of the second Muslim International Film Festival believes cinema can help combat the growth of anti-Muslim hostility, but he’s worried about the future.
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July 1, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Frida Kahlo was ahead of her time, to be seized on when the world, particularly the US, caught up with women's changing roles, anti-racism & anti-colonial movements, the sexual revolution and the Latino, civil, disability and identity rights movements
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How the Zeitgeist helped create Fridamania — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
Advance sales for the new Frida Kahlo exhibition topped 41,000, a Tate Modern record. At £25 a pop, it will be a commercial bonanza.
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June 25, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Take a bow, Finborough Theatre. Says the writer: “...it has been nearly impossible to find a theatre brave enough to present Soldiers of Tomorrow, and I am glad to be able to finally bring the show back to the UK at the ever-courageous Finborough Theatre.”
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From Israel to Canada: yesterday’s soldier looks back with regret — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
What a tragically sad title for Itai Erdal’s monologue at the Finborough Theatre: Soldiers of Tomorrow .
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June 23, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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aid worker Jo has built a career helping those most in need but now wonders if the system she believes in might be part of the problem and whether we really want to change things - or whether we just like the idea of helping,
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When the aid worker met the Kenyan activist — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
What has Florence Nightingale got to do with the post-World War Two international development aid industry?
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June 19, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Forget the academic jargon that infests the new blockbuster exhibition on Panafricanism at the Barbican Centre and enjoy the fighting spirit, creativity, bite, diversity, drama and humour on show.
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Project Black Planet fights its way through a thicket of jargon — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
Forget the academic jargon that infests the new blockbuster exhibition on Panafricanism at the Barbican and enjoy the fighting spirit, creativity, bite, diversity, drama and humour on show.
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June 13, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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Instead of the grimacing Maori warrior or dancer you might expect at 'Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific' at the V&A museum, you are confronted at the exhibition entrance by a pot-bellied figure of a Polynesian security guard.
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Striking voices from the Asia-Pacific region — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
Instead of the grimacing Maori warrior or dancer you might expect at Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific, you are confronted at the exhibition entrance by a pot-bell...
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June 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Theatre should make you think, but London's Arcola is about to consider a particularly awkward and painful question: if you support international development aid, do you really want to change the world — or do you just like the idea of helping?
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A Fine Idea joins the dots on the failure of aid — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
Theatre should make you think, but the Arcola is about to ask audiences to consider a particularly awkward and painful question: if you support international aid, do you really want to change the...
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June 9, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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I felt sure A Useful Ghost - a Thai love story about vacuum cleaners - was a shoo-in for the most unusual film of the year. Until I saw 'Hen', a drama about a chicken who escapes from a factory-farm and ends up embroiled in a deadly people-smuggling scam.
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Chicken steals the show in people-smuggling drama — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
I felt sure that A Useful Ghost   - a Thai love story about vacuum cleaners - was a shoo-in for the most unusual film of the year. Until I saw Hen .
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May 25, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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A Grain of Sand, about a Gazan girl's search for her family, is at Arcola. The Voice of Hind Rajab, focused on one death among thousands, is in cinemas. Palestine: Peace de Resistance, comedy at Park Theatre. Salt of This Sea, part of film season celebrating Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir.
January 23, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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It’s a pleasing idea: 11 individuals fan out across 54 African countries to compile a state-of-the-continent report for the Arcola Theatre stage.
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Postcards from Africa — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
It’s a pleasing idea: 11 individuals fan out across 54 African countries to compile a state-of-the-continent report for the Arcola Theatre stage.
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June 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict is tough viewing, and some people understandably will not want to see it.
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Sexual violence in conflict - ‘the cheapest weapon known to man’ — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict is tough viewing, and some people understandably will not want to see it.
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June 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Brilliant British story about asylum - and OCD:
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Brilliant British story about asylum - and OCD — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
Ignore the title, Insane Asylum Seekers, which suggests a whacky comedy straining for laughs. Think instead of an intimate, brilliantly written and performed monologue about a British Iraqi family.
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May 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Palestine-Israel events in London Tuesday and Wednesday:
Foreign Media Access to Gaza @Frontline Club; Ahmed Alnaouq: We Are Not Numbers, Southbank Centre; Protest at Barclays AGM, QE11 Centre; Trade Unionists against the ongoing Nakba, webinar
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May 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Plunder, art and the British Museum: Time to go home
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Plunder, art and the British Museum:  Time to go home — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
“All of human history? It’a basically people taking things from other.” A 1,000-year-old statue is moved from the British Museum to a Chinese airport.
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May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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The world’s first Pidgin opera continues to spread its wings.
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The world’s first Pidgin opera continues to spread its wings — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
When Nigerian-British musician Helen Epega announced that she would be writing the world’s first Pidgin opera, a woman responded, “Oh, but you’re an educated woman. Why would you do an opera in pidgin...
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April 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Home truths about hospitality, asylum and climate change:
The Guest is playing at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham Common
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Home truths about hospitality, asylum and climate change — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
The Guest is about global heating and refugees, about walls against strangers, about suspicion and trust..
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April 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Welcome to the new course designed to eliminate aggressive driving.
Your instructor is Abz, a speed awareness facilitator and anger manager specialist.
We’re all set.
Wait a moment, though. Isn’t it odd that like Abz, the first three drivers on the course are British Asians?
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April 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Mariam knows the Israeli army often drops small warning bombs – a knock on the roof - giving tenants in Gaza 5-15 minutes to evacuate. With wit and determination, Mariam meticulously rehearses for the run of her life
Royal Court Theatre
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Waiting for the knock on the roof — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
Khawla Ibraheem got the idea for her monologue, A Knock On The Roof, about four years ago. Conflict in Gaza has made it even more topical. That’s hardly surprising, as the latest war is not the firs...
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March 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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'To A Land Unknowen' in London currently: Two Palestinians scrabble for survival in Athens, desperately trying to earn enough to get to Germany, where they plan to open a cafe and re-start their lives: taut, sad buddy-movie crime caper.
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A pair of desperate Palestinians: ‘We’re getting out, no matter what’ — London listings: events about Africa, Asia & Latin America
Two Palestinians scrabble for survival in a run-down area of Athens, desperately trying to earn enough to pay for the rest of their journey to Germany, where they plan to open a cafe and re-start thei...
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February 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Today: 'Ask the Experts: A Year of Global Elections', Pavithra Suryanaryan, Ben Ansell, Sara Hobolt, @British Academy &
'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This', Egyptian-born US journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad on 20 years of Western lies @TheConduit
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February 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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'To A Land Unknown', drama about two Palestinian refugees living in a run-down area of Athens who are desperately trying to raise money to get to Germany; Ritzy and Curzon Mayfair
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February 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Digital-ID systems have denied access to food aid, shown algorithmic bias, provoked massive personal data leaks and put sensitive data in the hands of bad actors. It's always political, usually unfair, and often retards international development goals.
Online talk tomorrow
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February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Today: 'Chinese and Any Other Asian', academic, poet, and journalist Anna Sulan Masing on her new work exploring what it means to be East and South East Asian in Britain
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February 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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All-star cast for tonight's 'The ‘C’ Word: Being Chinese in Britain Today': Eddie Chan, Chung Min Pang, Lucy Sheen, Xinran, Anne Witchard, Yan Wang Preston, Ken Cheng, Ben Chu, Georgie Ma, Geoff Leong, Wenlan Peng @britishlibrary.bsky.social
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January 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM