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The Cultural Frontline: Wounds of War: Angola's Troubled Past

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Unpicking the wounds of war - Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda on his country's troubled past

07/10/2017 GMT

Wounds of War: Angola's Troubled Past

BBC World Service - The Cultural Frontline, Wounds of War: Angola's Troubled Past

Artist Kiluanji Kia Henda on using art to examine Angola's civil war wounds

Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda, Argentinian Reggaeton rapper Romina Bernardo, South African music and film star Nakhane, and the LA bookstore selling banned Iranian books.

As Angola chooses a new president, João Lourenço, award-winning Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda discusses how artists can interact with his country's recent violent history and politics.

Argentinian rapper Romina Bernardo, better known as Chocolate Remix, talks about taking Reggaeton music, which is known for its sexist and homophobic overtones, and remixing it for a feminist, gender-fluid audience in Buenos Aires, the gay capital of South America.

Male circumcision is the backdrop of a new feature film called The Wound, South Africa’s submission for the foreign-language Oscar. The film’s star is South African singer, songwriter and author, Nakhane. He explains why he's defying traditionalists to expose the issue of botched adult male circumcisions, the result of a traditional manhood initiation ritual practised by the Xhosa tribe.

And Bijan Khalili, owner of the Ketab bookshop in the heart of Los Angeles, which is home to a huge Iranian diaspora, talks about getting around censorship of books in Iran by publishing and selling banned Persian books since 1981.

Presenter: Tina Daheley
Producer: Paul Waters

(Photo: Kiluanji Kia Henda. Credit: Muamby Wassaky)

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