By Abdourahman Waberi

What is the fil rouge running between Algeria’s unforgettable freedom fighter and film producer Saadi Yacef (‘The Battle of Algiers’, shot by Gillo Pontecorvo in 1966 in the Casbah, was adapted from his true story), Somalia’s poet and academic Ali Jimale Ahmed, Congo’s notable novelist Emmanuel Dongala, French reporter and author Anne Niva and novelist and former former Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India Shashi Tharoor, to name but a few among the phenomenal team of writers, journalists, photographers, visual artists and activists assembled ? They all appear in the first issue of a brand new remarkable online magazine called WARSCAPES « motivated by a need to move past a void within mainstream culture in the depiction of people and places experiencing staggering violence, and the literature they produce ».

If it is always with huge pleasure and emotion that we readers welcome the birth of a promising publication, let’s also show our solidarity. Let’s support WARSCAPES and wish them long life.

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