From the editor

* On stage, there's A Human Being Died That Night, in which psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela confronts an apartheid killer, and Race, by David Mamet, in which a white man is accused of rape by a black woman; a one-woman show on the experience of migrating to the UK; and Chimerica, which looks at China-US relations through the bprism of a photoghrapher who took a historic picture during the Tien An Men Square protests.

* Photographer Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition, Genesis, has opened at the Natural History Museum. The director of Survival, Stephen Corry says of the show, "Salgado’s photographs of contemporary tribal peoples celebrate the enormous diversity of humankind. Sadly, most of the tribes featured here are suffering from persecution – to the point that their very existence is threatened. We hope that people will be inspired by this exhibition to take the next step and get involved in the campaign for their rights."

,* An exhibition at Rich Mix, says Vivenie Mugunga, director of rYico, the charity which organised it, "is a rare opportunity for Rwandans to tell their stories in their own way: “Members of the Rwandan community in the U.K often feel that there is a great amount of misinformation and misrepresentation about Rwanda and Rwandans out there”. Mugunga describes the exhibition as a source of empowerment for the community: “The Rwandan diaspora are given a role to play in telling and keeping their own history as well as representing themselves in the way they would like. Who could tell your story better than yourself?"

Daniel Nelson
Editor
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Friday 24 May
* Propaganda and Politics in the Modern Age, Charles Crawford, Isabel Hilton and Gillian Slovo, 6.30-8pm, £7.50/£5, British Library, Euston Road, NW1
* "Why we knew nothing about Auschwitz": Former Nazi elite-school pupils' attempts to come to terms with the Holocaust, Helen Roche, 1pm, free,  The Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, WC1. Info: 7636 7247

Saturday 25 May
* On Technology, Tom Chatfield explores how we use the internet, mobile technology, emailing, texting, tweeting and blogging and the effect these have on our minds, 4pm, £8, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1. Info: 7960 4200

Sunday 26 May
* A Future Without Bees, Dave Goulson, Steve Benbow, Karin Alton, 7pm, £10, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1. Info: 7960 4200

Monday 27 May
* Nature & Awe, Sara Maitland and David Maitland discuss how nature inspires them in their work, midday, £12, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1. Info: 7960 4200
* Bees in the City, Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum, 3pm, Southbank centre, Belvedere Road, SE1. Info: 7960 4200

Tuesday 28 May
*  Armageddon in Cyberspace, Ben Hammersley on whether the expansion of the internet could lead to its collapse, 6.30pm, Stationers' Hall, Ave Maria Lane, EC4. Info: 7831 0575/ enquiries@gresham.ac.uk
* The Economic War Against Cuba, Salim Lamrani, 6.39pm, Bolívar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, W1. Info: http://www.latino-life.co.uk/?q=node/383
* Urban health and communicable disease, conference, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street,  W1. Info:  epidemiology@rsm.ac.uk
* Writing Revolution: The voices from Tunis to Damascus, Matthew Cassel, Layla Al-Zubaidi, Ali Aldairy, Mohamed Mesrati, 7pm, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info: 7479 8940
* Fifty Years of African Unity, Alex de Waal, 6-8pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info; http://www.royalafricansociety.org/user/register
* Is there a right to disobedience and resistance?, Costas Douzinas, 6pm, Malet Street Building, Birkbeck, University of London. Info: 7631 6316/ http://www.bbk.ac.uk/law

Wednesday 29 May
* Writing Revolution: voices from Tunis to Damascus, planel discussion with Matthew Cassel, Layla Al-Zubaidi, Ali Aldairy and Mohamed Mesrati, 7pm, free, The Mosaic Rooms, A.M Qattan Foundation, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, SW5. Info: rsvp@mosaicrooms.org
*  Leaping and learning: linking smallholders to markets, Josephine Okot, Howard Shapiro, Steve Wiggins, Martin Evan, 4.30pm, free, Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ p.events@odi.org.uk/ http://www.odi.org.uk
* The Amartya Sen Lecture at LSE, Sir James Wolfensohn, Amartya Sen, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: events@lse.ac.uk
* Reflections with Alex Thomson, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info: 7479 8940

Thursday 30 May
* Killing Us Softly: How Demographics Drive Global Economics, James Sproule, 6pm, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Holborn, WC1. Info: 7831 0575/ enquiries@gresham.ac.uk

Friday 31 May
* William Dalrymple on his latest book on the First Afghan War 1839-1842, 7.30pm, £10, Southbank centre, Belvedere Road, SE1. Info: 7960 4200
* Obama's Second Term: Power, Progress and the Partisan Divide, 6.45-8.45pm, £4/£3, British Library, Euston Road, NW1. Info: 0843 2081144/ Customer-Services@bl.uk

Exhibitions

* Propaganda: Power and Persuasion, "the first exhibition to explore international state propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries", British Library, Euston Road, NW1, until 17 September. Info: 0843 2081144/ Customer-Services@bl.uk
+ Hitler, Stalin, Mao - and health messages
+ 24 May, Propaganda and Politics in the Modern Age, 6.30pm, £7.50/£5
+ 28 May, 30 May, Half-term family workshops, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, free
+ 1 June, Picturing Propaganda: A Study Day, £25/£15 concessions
+ 10 June, Propaganda in the Americas: A Historical Evaluation, 6.30, £4/£3
+ 14 June, Eisenstein's Strike, screening, 6.30pm, £7.50/£5
+ 17 June, Myths and Realities 19 Social Media: new democracy or mass deception?, 6.30pm, £7.50/£5
+ 21 June, Justifying War, discussion, 6.30pm, £7.50/£5

* Reframing Palestine, Raedah Saadeh's works aim to convey with humour and charm the  paradoxes, ironies and frustrations of daily life in her homeland, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1, until 14 June. info: 7324 2570/  info@freewordonline.co/ info@roseissa.com

* Keeping Memories: The Rwandan Community in the UK, free, Rich Mix, until 31 May. Info: www.ryico.org/ http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/keeping-memories-the-rwandan-community-in-the-uk/

* Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013, shortlisted work including pictures on the Zambian space programme, the "war on terror", the sex industry in Europe and the destruction of working class life, Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, W1, until 30 June. Info: 7087 9300/:info@tpg.org.uk

* Colours of Change: Sri Lanka, photographs of changing times by Stephen Champion, Brunei gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC2, until 22 June. Info: 7898 4046

* Genesis, more than 200 photographs by Sebastião Salgado that draws together landscapes and wildlife images alongside those of human communities that continue to live in accordance with ancestral traditions, £10/ £5, Natural History Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, until 8 September. Info: http://nhm.pmailuk.com/bnmailweb/ct?d=BisjjwAuAEn-----AABshA

* George Catlin: American Indian Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, WC2, until 23 June. Info: 7306 0055

* Extinction: Not the End of the World? explores the crucial role extinction plays in the evolution of life, Natural History Museum, Exhibition Road, SW1. Info: Tickets
+ Are we in the midst of another Great Dying?

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Film

Around town
* The Reluctant Fundamentalist, adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's elliptical novel about a Pakistani Wall Street worker who begins to have a mindshift after the 9/11 attacks
* A Hijacking, Somali pirates seize control of a Danish cargo ship and hold the crew hostage

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