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In July 2024, it will be 40 years since the beginning of the famed Dunnes Stores strike – in which a group of young shop workers in Dublin, at enormous per...

1 June 2021 - Judy Seidman Four decades later, post-apartheid South Africa barely recalls the Medu Art Ensembles contributions to the liberation struggle. But that could be changing. The collective was formed by South African cultural activists exiled after the 1976 Soweto uprising and it worked with artists back home, Botswana citizens, and some from other countries. Medu used the creative arts – visual image, theatre, music and literature – to give voice to South Africa’s liberation str...

Four decades later, post-apartheid South Africa barely recalls the Medu Art Ensemble's contributions to the liberation struggle. But that could be changing.