![Pulse: South African students' struggle for free higher education](https://i0.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-17-at-17.52.21.png?resize=470%2C140)
South African university students are continuing the struggle for a free decolonised higher education. The protests of 2016 reignited when in October the government allowed…
![613. Gaia Manco](https://i1.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-17-at-18.46.57.png?resize=470%2C140)
In this interview I tell how i created my own job of ‘giving voice to stories that matter’. “Ho scritto, telefonato, mi sono presentata con…
![My Hair Matters, report for DW by Gaia Manco](https://i0.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-22-at-10.52.56.png?resize=470%2C140)
The subject of hair and how you wear it has made headlines in South Africa. Back in August, a group of students at Pretoria Girls…
![Production: Junges Leipzig. Attention: art ahead!](http://www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
I’m proud to present the third of a series of short films that I am creating with film-maker Alina Cyranek about the city of Leipzig…
![Una moschea in Sassonia - Radio report for Radio Colonia, Funkhaus Europa, WDR](https://i0.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/wdr_moschea1.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
Il progetto di una moschea a Lipsia ha dato vita a un dibattito infuocato e a tensioni inaspettate in una città fino ad oggi ritenuta…
![Generation change: On two wheels out of poverty -Radio report for DW, with Ronny Arnold](https://i2.wp.com/www.gaiamanco.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/04-Bikes-for-Africa-with-Johannes-Wolf.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
A young German cyclist repairs used bikes and ships them to African countries. There, they’re not just a way to get some exercise, but can…
Writing an editorial: “Sulle strade di Colonia” “On the streets of Cologne” -LDV, Radio Vaticana, Mail and Guardian blog…
On January 8th 2016 I published, on the collective feminist blog that I co-created, the editorial “Per le strade di Colonia” as a reaction to…