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postcolonial

The unfulfilled promises of decolonization

REVOLUTION: This film shows the untold stories of the female FLN fighters in Algeria and their erasure from history after independence. And the promises of reforms and equality were hollow.
Margareta Hruza -

Postcolonial and critical of power

HOLBERG PRIZE WINNER: Achille Mbembe's books all revolve around how the people in post-colonial states are kept down and marginalized. But also about how democracy today does not work because threats, violence and murder keep people away from the public sphere, from debates, from being able to say what you think for fear of losing your job, being put in prison or killed.
Ketil Fred Hansen -

Out of the shade

A General Theory of Oblivion highlights Angola's bloody history.
Birgitte Bjørnøy -

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