Kuduro is the soundtrack to life in 21st century Angola, the music that has given back the happiness and the desire to dance to a country emerging from decades of civil war. The streets of the capital, Luanda, are dominated by the sound systems of ...
If it was a bird, Luanda would be a huge parrot, drunk of abyss and blue in colour. If it was a catastrophe, it would be an earthquake: uncontrolled energy that shakes deep down to the earth's foundations. If it was a woman, it would be a mulatta ...
It is early morning. Only the voices of fishermen cleaning their boats in the harbour and the gentle patter of a few people walking along the main road can be heard. As breakfast time approaches the warm smell of pastry floats through the air. ...
In less than a month, ordinary Tunisians from across the social spectrum brought down the cleptocratic 23-year regime of president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and unleashed an avalanche of popular protest movements that continue to rumble across the ...
Mozambique's vibrant Zion Churches are a specifically African expression of the global Pentecostal movement that is quickly becoming the fastest growing religious denomination in the world with an eight-fold increase in adherents over the past half ...
Kuapa Kokoo, or 'Good Cocoa Farmers Company', is a co-operative that is run by, and works for, Ghanaian cocoa farmers. It was set up in 1993 to protect farmers during the liberalisation of the cocoa market that took place in the early 1990s, and now has ...
Justice is a journey in post-war Sierra Leone. People negotiate and experience the justice system differently according to their means, their gender, their status and even the place they live. The system itself is varied and complex, with many routes...
Afghanistan may be going through a process of reconstruction but the situation for women, especially outside the major cities, is little better than it was under the Taliban. Lana Slezic produced this body of work on women in Afghanistan for the World ...
Using a local photographer's old box camera in a Kabul market, Lana Slezic started taking these extraordinary pictures of Afghan women and girls - a subject she had focused on in her book project Forsaken - in 2007. As she slowly familiarised ...
When war broke out between Israel and Hezbollah in July 2006, Panos photographer Jeroen Oerlemans, on holiday in Beirut and unable to return home, picked up his camera and set to work. He would document the conflict from beginning to end, capturing some ...
Jeroen Oerlemans and William Daniels photographed the devastating consequences of Haiti's 12th January 2010 earthquake. They were working for Action Aid UK, Handicap International and Merlin, which are among the charities supporting those affected by ...
As navy ships on the Greek-Turkish border search for refugees crossing the river Evros by boat, cars slowly patrol the land border around Orestiada, Nea Vyssa and Kastanies, looking for those trying their luck on foot. Each patrol car takes one Greek...
The ongoing war in Syria has brought an unprecedented refugee crisis to the Middle East. Of all the countries in the region, Lebanon, Syria's tiny next-door-neighbour Lebanon, is bearing the brunt. UNHCR figures tally more than 820,000 registered ...
The kangaroo is one of Australia's national symbols. It features on the reverse of the one dollar coin, forms the logo of the national airline, and, in the form of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, is an enduring televisual icon. But Australians' fondness for ...
Since the Burmese army's brutal military crackdown on Buddhist monks and other peaceful protesters in September 2007, a constant refrain has been, 'What happened to the monks?' Working alongside a team of researchers from Human Rights Watch, Pat ...
Wedged into a great arch of north-eastern India which loops around and almost totally envelops it, Bangladesh sits on the silty and soggy estuaries of two of the world's largest rivers - the Ganges and the Bhramaputra. The majority of the country's ...
'When I first started working on the Hope project, I simply thought about the word which at first seemed full of positive connotations. After much deliberation and with little progress on what subject I was going to photograph, I decided to take a ...
Loathed by some, admired by others, respected by many, Margaret Thatcher was a seminal political figure during her long premiership and beyond. Whatever people thought and think of her, she was a personality who elicited strong reactions and goes ...
'Stop the violence.' 'We want unity and reconciliation.' 'Enough of camp life.''We want to go home.'Violence against women and children has risen dramatically since the latest fighting broke out in eastern Congo. In November, hundreds of women took part ...
Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. Most people scratch a living from the land. Their diet and health are poor. Most girls are married in their early teens. It is also the worst place in India for cataract blindness. Mastichak (which means ...
On 6 April 1994, a shaky ceasefire between the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and the Hutu-run Rwandan army that had largely been observed in the breach was blown apart by the assassination of the country's Hutu president Juvenale ...
'Don't photograph the dead' he told me. 'Have some respect!' A FEMA press officer, he looked about 20. Have some respect? Christ I could have shouted that back in his face. Have some respect! You call this having respect? It's eight days later and the ...
Potamienne sings softly as she plays with her youngest son and sorts beans for that night's meal in her yard. 'As I photographed her' explained Stuart Freedman, 'I knocked against something behind me and nearly fell. She paid no attention and it was only...
The lives of former child soldiers in Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, Angola and Sierra Leone are examined in Stuart Freedman's story 'Lord of the Flies'. 'What's special about Stuart Freedman's photographs is their interest in the ramifications of child ...
India's coffee houses are analogous to the classic British cafes; those iconic, vintage 'greasy spoons' that have almost disappeared in the last decade. Just as those were symbols of London's post war optimism and modernism, India's cafes speak of a ...
The poor have fallen out of the narrative of modern India. Delhi, the nation's capital, has been transformed into a vibrant, wealthy metropolis. But where extremes of wealth tread, illness and despair follow, and Delhi is today in the grip of a ...
By conservative estimates, Delhi has a homeless population of around 100,000 people. The city, once a sleepy bureaucratic backwater compared to glittery Mumbai, is now an island of ostentatious wealth floating on a sea of medieval squalor. Slum ...
On a chilly winter's night in 1922, a young Danish scientist, Johannes Schmidt, stood up at the Royal Society in London and presented his paper 'The Breeding Places of the Eel'. What would become known as 'Schmidt's Classical Theory' overturned...
By 2020, the elderly population in India will nearly double to 150 million people. Better medical care and low fertility rates have made the elderly the fastest growing section of society. India, rapidly developing into an economic superpower, is ...
The ahwas or coffee houses of Cairo have a long and significant history in modern Egypt. Reflecting political and social change throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, they became the focus for the independence movement that culminated in the ...
Kashmir is a crossroads and remains one of the great conflicted narratives of modern India. A land given, taken and fought over a thousand times. When Timur (Tamerlane) invaded India from Persia in the fifteenth century, he came with an army of 1,700...
The highest point in the tiny nation of Tuvalu is just four and a half metres above sea level. Its ten thousand people face the horrifying prospect of becoming refugees of climate change, as rising sea levels caused by global warming threaten to submerge...
A tsunami triggered by an 8.3 magnitude earthquake in the South Pacific struck Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga on the 29th of September 2009. More than 170 people were killed when waves up to 15 feet high hit the islands, destroying entire villages....
'...thought I'd let you know we made it to Melbourne last night. The fires are still close, although I believe they'll not reach the house......There are so many very sad stories. Heaps of homes lost, livestock burnt and at the moment 14 people dead and ...
The story of Kiribati is one that reflects modern life in many developing Pacific Ocean states: nations who suffer the environmental consequences of sustaining life in fragile ecosystems and find themselves treading water in the fight against rising sea ...
'El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha', Miguel de Cervantes' classic 17th century novel, is the pre-eminent work in the history of Spanish literature. The book tells the story of Don Quixote, an errant knight who embarks upon a series of ...