Suriname: On “Someni Tongo” · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“I think art is exactly and only about this: the need to create and express what is uniquely inside you, and to do so because you have no choice”: Chandra van Binnendijk, guest blogging at Paramaribo SPAN, shares her impressions of  Dutch artist Arnold Schalks's Someni Tongo project, “which examined Suriname's cultural and linguistic diversity through a live performance of a celebrated poem.”