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Mia Couto, Pankaj Mishra and Lea Ypi in conversation with Nesrine Malik

South to North Conversations: fiction from the remains of the empires

Cartagena 2026, 

To rethink the world, it is also necessary to look at the edges of the map. Mia Couto (Mozambique), Pankaj Mishra (India) and Lea Ypi (Albania), three fascinating minds from the global South, talk to us about different realities —post-colonial India and Mozambique, and post-Communist Albania—, but with a single intuition: the peripheries, the remains of empires, have much to offer in building the world in which we live. They talk to Nesrine Malik about the moral arrogance of the West and the importance of listening to other voices.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

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Mia Couto, Pankaj Mishra and Lea Ypi in conversation with Nesrine Malik