Fiction that Matters

Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar Viktor Diop shot in Abidjan.

We can’t get enough of Omar Victor Dioptoday

Senegal

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Writers get ready. PEN Haiti's house of literature has opened!

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Named in honor of Georges Anglade, an ethnographer and academic who died in the January 2010 earthquake, the sprawling, mountainside facility is swiftly becoming a hub for youth education and international exchanges after opening in August 2012. 

photo by Zeep van der Kist

A coal truck in Somalia

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Cover the floor with flower carpets and dance with the decorated elephants until you are blue in the face…

Elaborate feasts, elegant dances, ornately dressed elephants, vibrant parades, snake boat races and intricate flower carpets are all part of this breathtaking harvest festival, the biggest festival in the South Indian state of Kerala .

More on Onam Festival by Somewhere in the world today…

Picture: Onam in Kerala. Gods with Green Faces ! by Anoop Negi, on Flickr