Public hearings have resumed before the Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission in Seychelles. Another three-month break due to the Covid-19 pandemic has further hampered the Commission’s work. But another challenge is how victims may be compensated and the chairperson of the Commission has called the government to commit to offer reparations.
Colin Church, Kenya PR executive who oversaw the protection of black rhino and other rarities in the Aberdare park – obituary
A 250-mile-long electrified fence was installed surrounding the Aberdare mountain range, protecting elephants, leopards and antelopes
Colin Church planting a post in Mau Eburu
Colin Church, who has died aged 81, was a Kenyan public relations executive who devoted the latter part of life to protecting his country’s wildlife and mountain forests, becoming one of East Africa’s most renowned conservationists.
From 2002 to 2012 he served as the chairman of Rhino Ark Charitable Trust, a charity dedicated to combating the rampant poaching of black rhinos in central Kenya’s Aberdare National Park. He oversaw the completion, in 2009, of an 250-mile-long electrified fence surrounding the mountain range.
Gou Kréol (1994) reflecting on the common Creole culture across the Indian Ocean.
But séga also gave rise to a genre the Seychelles claims as its own – the moutya. A deeply communal performance of dance and music, the moutya’s characteristic flat goatskin drum is tuned by being warmed by the heat of the open fire around which the gathering takes place and is joined by improvised call and response singing. In recent years Victoria has been at the heart of efforts to preserve this sound of more than 200 years’ history.
There were thousands of slaves on the Seychelles islands by the early 19th century, and the moutya – derived from a Bantu word – arose in circumstances of severe oppression.
March 04, 2021
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It looks like The Adventures of Asterix is going to be jumping out of the comic books and onto the screens.
Netflix is creating the first-ever animated limited series based on the iconic French comic book with playwright Alain Chabat and French publishing house Hachette’s Les Editions Albert René (via Deadline).
The one-off series will be based on Asterix and the Big Fight where the Romans, after being constantly embarrassed by Asterix, organises a brawl with rival Gaulish chiefs and try to fix the result through the use of magic potions.
The Adventures of Asterix is originally a French series about Gaulish warriors who have adventures and fight the Roman Republic during the era of Julius Caesar.
Asterix & Obelix
Alain Chabat, director of the 2002 live-action film Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, will direct the limited series based on the iconic comic books.
Netflix has given a series order for a new animated take on classic comic-book franchise
Asterix & Obelix.
The streaming giant is teaming with French publisher Hachette’s Les Editions Albert René on a French-language limited series based on the graphic novel series about the two eponymous Gauls who, with the help of a magic potion, fight the Roman occupation of Europe. The first
Asterix & Obelix graphic novel was published in 1961, and there have been 38 volumes to date released in 111 languages and dialects. The 39th is set to be published this year. There have also been 15 animated and live-action films based on the comics.