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Cabo Delgado violence

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'Surviving the Curse'

One of Guinea-Bissau’s music stars sings about how his father tried to kill him, when he was a baby. Law protects this tradition. Infanticides are accepted, because ‘irã’ children incarnate bad spirits. Why this matters...

Part of the 2016 edition of 'Festival Internacional de Música no Cinema', São Jorge cinema, Lisbon

'Independence?'

Guinea-Bissau has just completed 42 years as an independent state, but it fails to act as one. A few meters away from the capital, a small island encapsulates all the problems the country faces. No water, No electricity. Mothers giving birth in canoes. Welcome do the King’s Island. More about this...

Aired in 2015 on RTP África documentaries, part of the portuguese broadcaster contents for Africa