In the first episode of Spoken Earth, Lacuna’s new podcast series, Adam Weymouth meets British anthropologist Hugh Brody, discussing land rights, the Arctic, and the hunter-gatherer view of the world.
The Sengwer Indigenous people, who have lived in the Embobut Forest in the North Rift Valley of Kenya for centuries, are now facing eviction in the name of conservation. More than 2,000 homes have been burnt down and 5,000 people evicted. Pablo Orosa reports.
When 29-year-old entrepreneur Saima Thompson received a terminal diagnosis she began to understand the extent of the stigma some British South Asians attach to cancer. Here she explores the idea of “immigrant shame”, saying cultural taboos are fuelling health inequalities and costing lives.
In a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos how can we stop a generation of independent women and girls with high hopes of careers from being forced back into domestic roles?
Protests against Birmingham’s Anderton Park Primary School’s ‘No Outsiders’ programme have raised questions about how Muslims and the LGBT community can co-exist. Our writer’s life straddles that divide.
From the third instalment in the Refugee Tales series, this tender tale, as told to Patrick Gale, follows a man as he flees Iran, faces a difficult journey and attempts to rebuild his life.
