Dr. Amit Sengupta shares with Newsclick the crucial local context behind the success of the recently concluded Tunis World Social Forum. He also discusses how the Tunis chapter went on to become a forum of resistance and how it changed many minds doubting the utility of the World Social Forum.

Newsclick presents a series of images and videos of the recently concluded 13th World Social Forum's opening ceremony in Tunisia, reminding us of the core WSF slogan; Another World is Possible!

NewsClick presents a series of images from the opening ceremony of the World Social Forum, 2013, Tunisia.

The World Social Forum 2013 kicked off this year on 27th March with tens of thousands of people marching through the heart of Tunis.

Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) planted the flag of African literature on the planet.

The combination of Uhuru Keyatta and William Ruto have won the elections in Kenya comfortably without the predicted bloodshed that took place last time.

Ahdaf Soueif is the author of the bestselling The Map of Love (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999 and translated into 28 languages). She is a writer and political and cultural commentator, and has also initiated the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) in 2008. Soueif talks to Newsclick about the recent political events in Egypt, PalFest, and writing.

The assassination of the highly respected opposition figure Chokri Belaid has thrown Tunisia into turmoil and could mark a turning point in Tunisian politics.

I am one of those who out of principle condemn all military interventions by Western powers in the countries of the South, these interventions being by nature subject to the requirements of the deployment of control of the planet by the capital of the monopolies that dominate the system.

Prof. Vijay Prashad discusses with Prof. Aijaz Ahmad the recent developments in the war-torn African country of Mali. On January 11 this year, the French troops launched an offensive on Mali. Prof. Prashad questions the so-called "humanitarian visions" of France and places the French bombardement in Mali in the category of "resource wars". Prof. Ahmad calls the French involvement as "an old colonial hangover" and also, a strategy of expanding the Euro-American military presence in the African continent. Is Mali another Afghanistan in the making?