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...Marong, "but they should know they can't." The blockades crippled local trade and boosted inflation in Gambia, which imports much of its fuel and other goods from Senegal. And it cut off access to Gambia's sea port, through which goods flow to neighbors such as Mali and Guinea. Senegalese President Abdulaye Wade suggested that his country should buy its own ferry to use on the River Gambia - or even tunnel under its neighbor. There are many longer tunnels in the world, Wade said, and China had already offered to help dig one here. Earlier this month, regional power...
...kora (which is, to my understanding, a stringed Malian instrument rather like a harp) come together much more wholly than I had expected. The result of this cooperation has an undeniably island flavor, belying Diabaté’s familial ties to the island of Guinea and offsets the Malian traditions both musicians share...
...Connolly's account of how he and Anderson navigated the undertow of tribal life - the extortion attempts, deep friendships and, finally, death threats - tells as much of life in Papua New Guinea as the Ganiga's grim story does. When Connolly found himself armed and listening for assassins in the dark, they knew it was time to leave. Now, three years after Anderson's death, he remains ambivalent about another major documentary project. He says Anderson herself, whose voice, analytical and wry, runs through the book, was having doubts about observational documentaries before her death: "The whole moral thing about...
Whether they found it on the tribal battlefields of Papua New Guinea or among satraps in Sydney council politics, Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly made films that brimmed with life. Australia's most acclaimed documentary makers for two decades, they shared a prodigious partnership at work - Anderson once said they worked so well together because "he thinks I'm better than him at what we do, and I think he's better than me" - and two daughters at home. There seemed much more to come, until Anderson died of cancer in 2002, at just 51. After that, "I didn...
...Going through his wife's possessions in the dark months that followed, Connolly came across the diaries she'd kept in 1990 during their year living in a grass hut making Black Harvest (1992), the third in their trilogy set in the wildly beautiful Highlands of Papua New Guinea. A planned book on their experience was never finished, waylaid by other projects, such as their celebrated 1996 take on the overheated jostling during the mayoral contest in an inner-Sydney city council, Rats in the Ranks. So when Connolly took up the book again 12 years...