CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Emblematic voices of Djibouti and Cuba offer, respectively, an intriguing exploration and reassuring familiarity
Yanna Momina and Eliades Ochoa
[(L to R) Glitterbeat and IriFe/CC]
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
YANNA MOMINA recorded Afar Ways (Giltterbeat) in Djibouti, on the horn of Africa.
Music is a serious business for the rural Afar people. Most of them do not have a television so music is performed every night.
Producer and author, Ian Brennan visited Djibouti in the spring of 2018 and discovered Momina accompanied on a two-string shingle played with nails and a matchbox for maracas. She has a stunning vibrato and writes her own songs.
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