In the New York Times Somini Sengupta reports on the Salaam Kivu Festival co-founded by Petna Ndaliko :
More here“Art can transcend where dialogue has been blocked,” Mr. Ndaliko said. “You could ask people to start thinking about their own lives without being a threat to the powers.”
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Anyway, he said, neither priests nor politicians — certainly not warlords — had helped the people of Goma to end a quarter-century of war. Why not let folks express themselves through music and dance?
The annual Salaam Kivu International Film Festival, better known as Skiff and a platform for performances and workshops of all kinds, is now in its ninth year. Most of the events take place in the yard of Yolé! Africa, an arts center that the Ndalikos run out of a bungalow splashed with murals and encased by high walls of stone and barbed wire, a walled compound in a residential neighborhood.
