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4 Reasons Why the State of California is the Hub of Entertainment and Tech

California is the fifth largest economy in the world. Yes, you read that right. If California were a sovereign nation, it would rank 5th on the world’s biggest economy list. Higher than India and the United Kingdom. This is a testament to the immense growth the state has seen since its inception back in 1850. …

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The Culture of Tattoos

In the 21st century, tattoo culture entered the mainstream like never before. For a significant number of humans, the ancient form of body modification provides a unique means of self-expression. Tattoos have become so ubiquitous, especially among young people, that the industry is now America’s sixth fastest-growing retail business.   Tattoos are often highly personal, representing …

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Talking Poetry: Nsah Mala, An African Poet-Patriot

CONSTIMOCRAZY is a story of Africa weaved by an African poet-patriot, a slinger wielding the spear, his pen, against treachery perpetrated by history and its cruelty. The same pen wielder rebukes Africa for frying its own beauty, dignity and morality in copper-roasting furnaces of disgrace and despotism. The African poet-patriot traverses with us around, from …

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Is Personal Privacy Irrelevant During a Pandemic?

During an outbreak, surveillance can be an essential tool in managing public health. By tracking cases and studying the effectiveness of policies — like social distancing and shelter-in-place orders — officials can collect data to slow or stop the spread of disease. Governments around the world are beginning to leverage their surveillance powers and collect …

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Online Security for Arts & Culture Organizations

Whether it’s a performance of Our Town at a community theater or a Monet retrospective at a major metropolitan art museum, there’s a chance cybercriminals want something far more valuable than the price of a ticket. Nonprofit organizations, particularly ones working in the arts and social activism, are especially vulnerable to online phishing and other …

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Everything Remembers in Michael Dickel’s Nothing Remembers

A poet is a societal surgeon whose poesy identifies, diagnoses, proscribes and acts accordingly. Their words are the scalpel and the sutures to expose, extract and treat the tumor that has been affecting and afflicting the social standing, the character, the stature and the integrity of the society beyond boarders. The tumor that has inflicted acute …

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A THROWBACK: Zimbabwe’s cracked footprints towards the Coup and beyond

He is an energetic, a rare breed of the Zimbabwean revolution, an ideologue, whose tongue-lashing and verbal acid spewing lips, rude honesty and raw revolutionary anger does not stop in front of any sacred cow, a multi-talented cadre whose creativity and wit is shaped by the gun, ideology and the pen. His candid verbosity and …

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Tafadzwa Muzondo Curates the Inaugural Zimbabwe Human Rights Festival

Machipisa in Highfeilds is a paradoxical African high density suburb in Zimbabwe. It gave birth to the both iconic song maestros and political heavyweights inclusive of the late George Nyandoro, Enos Nkala. Robert Mugabe, the late nationalist and former long serving president of Zimbabwe, resided in Highfeilds before his long trip to Mozambican jungles to …

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BOTSWANA SPEAKS GENDER ISSUES THROUGH POETRY

The Botswana Poetry Festival project was born through a collaborative effort of the Gender Affairs Department office in Molepolole and the Maruping Poetry Organization to foster cohesion, community engagement and involvement through literatures and spoken word arts. The Gender Affairs Department believes arts are vehicle for both edutainment and infotainment. On the 31st July 2018, …

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