Books

Support Film Adaptation of Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Caroline’s Wedding’ by Easmanie Michel!

Award-winning Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat has lent the rights to her short story ‘Caroline’s Wedding‘ to be adapted into a feature-length film. Caroline’s Wedding is about the Haitian-American experience told through one family’s struggle to...

Mukesh Kapila ‘Against A Tide Of Evil’

Mukesh Kapila is a medical doctor, humanitarian expert, and international aid diplomat. He wrote a book with award-winning and bestselling British author, Damien Lewis. As announced this Summer, ‘Against A Tide Of Evil‘ is the new book we will discuss tomorrow. From...

The MagkaSama Project will be back mid-September!

We will be taking a brief hiatus (a couple of weeks) so we won’t post new content posted until the middle of September. In the meantime, check out the archives, browse our site, there is plenty to read while we are away. We won’t be far anyway, we will post if there is any...

Sheryl Sandberg ‘Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead’

Our next Reading Group will be about Sheryl Sandberg‘s book:  ‘Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead‘. The book of COO of Facebook published on March 11, 2013, has already been translated in 24 languages and is on the top of the US bestseller lists since its...

Against a Tide of Evil, Sudan Summit Recap, Satellite Imagery

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Against a Tide of Evil: Whistleblower to the First Mass Murder of the Twenty-First Century by Mukesh Kapila, Act for Sudan Emergency Action Summit Recap and Satellite Imagery confirms Sudan Armed Forces...

Half the Sky Movement: The Game now on Facebook

Last month we published a news: Half the Sky Movement: The Game and other cause games. Since yesterday you can play Half the Sky Movement: The Game on Facebook. We have played the game and it’s great. Critics so far have been very good and enthusiastic: The Los Angeles Times writes:...

Half the Sky Movement: The Game and other cause games

If you have been reading the Sama Gazette and now the MagkaSama Project, you must be familiar with Half the Sky. First there was the book: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. We organized a discussion group when the...