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By Douglas ACHINGALE  When I first set eyes on a copy of "The Enticing Legend of the Massa Warriors", I thought the author had employed the word “enticing” simply to pull a fast one on the reader. But I was mistaken. Once I started perusing the work, I noticed that the lines were so luscious as to warrant me to get the very last page before I could drop it.  The first thing that glues the reader to the book is not so much the alluring front cover page picture of a female warrior on horseback as the epilogue which is a quote from one of the works of Africa’s all-time best storyteller, Chinua Achebe . It reads: “ I believe in the complexity of human story, and that there’s no way you can telle that story in one way and say, “this is “. Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing… this is the way the world’s stories should be told: from many different perspectives ”. Douglas Achingale, right, during the book lunch. ...

On the occasion of the 13th Biennale of Contemporay art dubbed Dak'Art 2018, 04 Experimentalists members of Osmose-Culture's project named Scènes Expérimentales and 1 Guest Experimentalist decided to pay tribute to Wangari Maathai (1940–2011). Wangari Maathai was a scholar, and an environmental and Human Rights Activist. In 1977, she founded the Green Belt Movement, a Non-Governmental Organization, which encourages women to plant trees to combat deforestation and environmental degradation.  To date, the Green Belt Movement has planted over 50 million trees. In the face of regular opposition, she succeeded in deepening and expanding her engagement with local communities through an impressive network of regional and international alliances, which made the Green Belt Movement a model women’s organization.  Increasingly aware that the environment was directly linked to issues of governance, peace and human rights, Maathai began to use her organization as a springboard in t...