This summer, as I was sipping coffee with a friend in downtown Guatemala City, I was introduced to a news reporter who agreed to take me with him as he visited murder sites. The next day I arrived at…
Popular entertainer Zay Yar Thaw started Burma’s first hip-hop band. Photo: Mizzima Generation Wave founder and hip-hop singer Zay Yar Thaw can’t sing in a show to raise funds for a home that cares for sick, elderly people…
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has used most of the instruments in the dictator’s toolbox to repress his people. He’s beaten and jailed political opponents. He’s thrown student activists out of university. He’s established a monopoly on television and…
Yatha says he finds inspiration in the work of Gandhi and Benjamin Nehru (DVB) A prominent Burmese hip hop artist is set to join a splinter group of the opposition National Democratic Force founded by the party’s one-time…
