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This week, our “Underreported” series looks at the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea, and how it relates to oil production in the region. We’ll hear from Samuel Nguiffo, director of the Center for Environment and Development (CED) in Cameroon, as well as Ibrahim Sundiata, professor of history at Brandeis. Then will talk to director Tobias Pearse about his new film, Persons of Interest. The documentary features a series of personal testimonies from twelve New York area detainees - some held for weeks, others for more than a year - and their family members. Nabil Ayesh, who was detained for a year and seventeen days after September 11th, joins us by phone. Next, we’ll hear from South Asian comedians Vidur Kapur and Vijay Nathan about their show, Laff it Up, at Joe’s Pub. Finally, Touré, a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and the author of the critically-acclaimed collection of short stories The Portable Promised Land, has written his first novel, Soul City. The book follows the story of Cadillac Jackson, a journalist who travels to Soul City to cover a mayoral election, and ends up investigating his own African-American identity and the character of ethnic identity in America.