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Can young ac­tivists in­spired by An­go­la’s un­der­ground rap scene take on a po­lit­i­cal elite that has ruled for decades?

Brand­ed a ‘ter­ror­ist’ by the Chilean gov­ern­ment, one man is fight­ing to save his an­ces­tral lands from de­struc­tion.

Chile’s in­dige­nous Ma­puche are fight­ing to pro­tect and re­claim their an­ces­tral lands from the gov­ern­ment and for­eign com

This is the sto­ry of how a 17-year-old Ma­puche ac­tivist be­came the first per­son to be con­vict­ed of ter­ror­ism in Chile.

One ac­tivist is or­gan­is­ing Mum­bai’s slum-dwellers as they face evic­tion to make way for up­mar­ket de­vel­op­ments.

Slums oc­cu­py only sev­en per cent of the city’s land yet house a dis­pro­por­tion­ate 60 per cent of its pop­u­la­tion.

Ex­pos­ing the wrong­do­ing of our po­lit­i­cal lead­ers serves as a de­ter­rent against fu­ture abus­es.

Af­ter vi­o­lence that pit­ted neigh­bour against neigh­bour, some Kenyans have unit­ed to de­mand more from their lead­ers.

Can an award-win­ning Kenyan pho­to­jour­nal­ist set his cam­era aside and build a move­ment to fight po­lit­i­cal cor­rup­tion?

Crit­i­cis­ing the gov­ern­ment of Il­ham Aliyev can car­ry heavy penal­ties as one op­po­si­tion ac­tivist ex­plains.