Martin In The Margins

Here's a few things you might have missed over the past seven days. Khaled Mattawa makes a powerful case for intervention in Libya, w...

OK, so it's been a bit quiet around here for a little while. Trouble is, whenever I get round to almost-posting about something, I find ...

Some gentle anti-colonialism for a sunny Sunday morning. I heard this on yesterday's excellent World Routes programme on Radio 3 about ...

Here's Mimitah - a new discovery, thanks to Bob's latest post . A little bit of African music to cheer up a wet and windy Saturday...

The situation of Afghan women and girls is not bad, or oppressive, or exploitative: it is extraordinary. In fact, in thinking about this sit...

Join the dots? Two British missionaries have been sentenced to one year in prison with hard labour after pleading guilty to sedition charges...

How is it that Cape Verde, a tiny archipelago of islands off the west African coast, keeps producing such amazing (female) singers? Followin...