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WHAT YOU MISSED LAST TIME

ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS

online on London Grip

ART, LITERATURE, LANGUAGE

Ian Hollings’

LATEST SPORTING DIARY

Football, athletics, tennis -

followed by all sports archives.

And

SNOOKER’S SUCCESS IN CHINA

SPORT

AFRICA

João de Pina-Cabral

The Tribes, the Leaders,

the Millionaires:

Racialised Africa

Social anthropologist de Pina-Cabral queries the five recommendations for change, addressed to Africa’s leaders and signed by the 20 present recipients of the prestigious Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellowship.

BRAZIL

THE RACE MISTAKE

An Open Letter

A group of 113 high-powered intellectuals, lawyers, businessmen and trade unionists have signed an open letter. They are concerned that the Federal Supreme Court may be about to entrench racism in Brazil by determining students’ admission into universities according to racial quotas. The implications are alarming.

BRITAIN

Duncan Prowse

The Case Against

Identity Cards.

EUROPE

MY MAY ’68

London Grip contributors go tripping down memory lane.

Duncan Prowse

“L’HÉRITAGE de ’68”

An overview of the underside of an age of innocence.

IRAQ

Hayder Abdul-Hussein

Basra:

Excremental Encounters

Anthropologist Hayder Abdul-Hussein went to Basra and found his material in the unspeakable.

SOUTH AFRICA

AUDIO

Patricia Morris

(1)The Poverty of Power: South Africa under Mandela and Mbeki

AUDIO version read by Deirdra Morris.

Sound and Pictures - Passing Shots:

The Truth & Reconciliation Commission: Parts 1, 2, 3. When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, its new Constitution was the most progressive in the world. Inscribed in this remarkable document was a commitment to ensuring reconciliation between the country’s peoples. But what was meant by “reconciliation”, and was it achieved?

David Philips

BRITAIN &

SOUTH AFRICA

From People's Charter to Freedom Charter:

A new take on the old connection between Britain’s People’s Charter of 1830 and the 1950s Freedom Charter of South Africa, both of which produced the democratic systems that we now take for granted.

YEMEN

Gabriele vom Brück

Woman on a Bus:

14 Scenes

The editor of An Anthropology of Names and Naming shows us a page of jottings, photos and a sound recording made during her ongoing research in Yemen into the performance of gender in the everyday.

Nobuyoshi Araki. From Erotos (1993)

POLITICS, ECONOMICS & SOCIETY

L O N D O N G R I P

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Ian Hollings - Sport

Robert Vas Dias - Poetry

Jessica Campbell - At Seventeen

Helen Donlon - Film & Sound

Julia Pascal - Performing Arts

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SOCIETY

AUDIO

Should only one method of counselling and psychotherapy be offered to patients? Psychotherapist Dr Jane McChrystal makes the argument for diversity in the means to pursue ordinary happiness.

AUDIO version read by

Deirdra Morris.

On saxophone, Peter Jaspan.