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Umeå, a small city on the northeast coast of Sweden which lies around 600 kilometres from Stockholm and wears a subarctic climate, with long and dark winters but warm summers imbued with the glow of a midnight sun, culturally punches several divisions above its weight class. Known for its birch trees and clean air, this fact owes partly to the...

Great Britain likes to think of itself as the country which ended slavery, what with Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce and all that. Yet a few years ago a BBC documentary pulled back the drapes, revealing the names and circumstances of the 46,000 slave owners who received compensation when the Slavery Abolition Act was finally passed after decades of...

For the follow-up to her Grammy-nominated debut album Fanm d'Ayiti, a celebration of the unheralded female singers of Haiti which was recited and performed in collaboration with Spektral Quartet, the Haitian American vocalist and flautist Nathalie Joachim sought to fete those ties that bind, from romantic trysts and familial bonds to the semantic shifts and twisted etymologies of Haitian...