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İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir​ by Gaye Su Akyol; Take It by Black Roots.

Sound the People; Crave.

(aka Radwan Ghazi Moumneh) Words by Louise Gray, photograph by Melanie Marsman.

Bush Lady by Alanis Obomsawin; Under Frustration, Vol 1 by Arabstazy.

Remain in Light by Angélique Kidjo; Voice of Resistance by Rim Banna.

Visit Malphino by Malphino; Universalists by Yonatan Gat.

Mambo Cósmico by Sonido Gallo Negro and Forest Bathing by A Hawk and a Hacksaw

Your Queen Is a Reptile by Sons of Kemet and Radyo Siwèl, by Mélissa Laveaux.

What a year! We’re all in need of some light relief – here we pick out the top films, books and music reviewed by New Internationalist in 2017

Swedish artist Fever Ray’s Plunge, and transnational trio Toto Bona Lokua’s feel-good album Bondeko.

Economic Partnership Agreement by Sven Kacirek and Daniel Mburu Muhuni; Syrian Dreams by Maya Youssef.

We review TootArd, from the Golan Heights, with their second album Laissez Passer, and Live at Ronnie Scott’s, by Nitin Sawhney.

At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me by Saz’iso; Frost on Fiddles by Frigg.

¿Donde estás María?; Strangers

Kin Sonic; Salone

Mogoya by Oumou Sangaré; The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda: our music reviews of the month.

Mogoya by Oumou Sangaré; The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda: our music reviews of the month.

A Common Truth by Satland; Les Amazones d’Afrique by République Amazone.

El Callegüeso y su Mala Maña by La Mambanegra; Luyando by Mokoomba.

Cruel Optimism by Lawrence English; Ensen by Emel.