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Sub-Saharan Africa: Artistic freedom between reform and repression

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By Lisa Sidambe, Freemuse’s Sub-Saharan Africa researcher. In early 2026, Freemuse published its annual report on the State of Artistic Freedom documenting attacks on artistic freedom worldwide throughout 2025. This regional update examines developments in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the first half of 2026. The weaponisation of the law and the instrumentalisation of enforced disappearances were prominent features in the regulation of artistic freedom…
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Freemuse broke the news on Monday, October 12, 2026.
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