Heroism and Defiance in an African Village
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To skip Ousmane Sembene's "Moolaade" would be to miss an opportunity to experience the embracing, affirming, world-changing potential of humanist cinema at its finest.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Power outages are a common occurrence in Kabwata, a poor neighborhood in the capital of this Southern African nation, where residents spend many of their evenings by candlelight, cooking with charcoal.
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The arrival of democracy on a tiny channel island after 400 years of feudalism is not exactly celebrated by the locals
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Two Turkish villages illustrate the impact of radically different approaches to development.
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Heroes arenÂt born with a golden spoon in their mouth. More often than not theyÂre people who struggle against all odds to make a place for themselves  in society.
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KALMA CAMP, Sudan -- She has been in the world for 18 days, and her life is tainted. Curled naked under a blanket close to her mother, Nashwa is too young to know shame, the emotion that will be like a shadow to her.
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Before December 2005, the Chadian village of Bir Kedouas , left, was a tidy collection of huts in walled compounds and cultivated fields. A later satellite image shows what is left: The former homesites (marked with red circles) and fields are now a charred scar in the earth. The entire population...
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ORAPWOYO, Uganda  - Nine years ago, Santonino Otok fled his home in the green fields of northern Uganda for a refugee camp, fearing attack by marauding rebels.
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Elizabeth Adak Shindu paid a high price to return home. She walked for 30 days, endured hunger and disease and used up the last of her life savings. When she finally reached this sprawling, dusty town, she found another family living on her land.
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NAIROBI -- One recent Sunday, Paul Abeno, a mid-level computer sales executive, shuffled through aisles of brass cabinet pulls, colored tiles and tiny glass-encased models of three-bedroom homes landscaped with paper trees. He stared through the glass at Baobab Village.
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Forces of war, nature, economic crisis and regional tension converge with a vengeance on populace.
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TULUS, Sudan - Three years after it was burned to the ground, the village of Tulus in Darfur is springing back to life.
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Mamadou Faye is a goat herder in Senegal.  We've never met, probably never will.  For the last year I've watched each month for an update on his business.  Each month I waited for news on how his venture progressed. This business partnership wasn't forged in the humid lowlands of Senegal, I did it from my laptop, in my own home.  We met through Kiva.   With $25, a paypal account, and a desire to do some good Kiva connected me to this man in Senegal and in doing so revealed the power of small.
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ALEXANDRA, South Africa -- As she drove home to this township, known as the Dark City during apartheid because it lacked electricity while Johannesburg's white neighborhoods nearby blazed with light, community activist Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa experienced a delicious moment of irony.
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BARR REFUGEE CAMP, Uganda  - Walter Emodo shudders as he recalls the day Ugandan rebels attacked his village two years ago, killing his younger brother and changing his formerly peaceful childhood forever.
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15 million readers, one Ugandan village. That'll work... The newspaper editor described (by his own newspaper, at least) as being "at the forefront of the digital revolution" has launched a three year programme that will connect "the ideas, goodwill, resources and expert knowledge of 15 million readers around the world" and focus them on lifting an African village "out of the Middle Ages." Over the next three years, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger wrote in Saturday's edition, the village of Katine in Northern Uganda will be mapped and recorded by teams of Graun hacks observing progress in this "catalyst for change."â¦
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NEW YORK, June 3 -- In the heart of the Queens neighborhood known as Little Guyana, Mohamed Sattaur stood Sunday over his plate of deep-fried cassava, wearing an expression of disbelief. Like many of his neighbors, Sattaur, 46, a Muslim from Guyana, was stunned by the news that men from his country...