T. P. Africa (english version)

Who is afraid of the black man

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:40:00 +0000

BY MAURIZIO RIBICHINI LISTEN: Some time ago, two years from now, an organization contacts me and asks if I would be interested in participating in a project regarding immigration for primary schools. Their intention was to produce a cartoon book of almost 100 pages which would talk about immigration “but the true one, because not everybody...

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Orlando Julius, Seun and Nigerian Elections

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:27:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") Nigeria is a place full of people and goods, of heroes and bandits, of spirits and soldiers, of drums and music. While I write, also half of my heart is there. This time again the elections in Nigeria have not been easy. All Nigerians know that the day of the elections, gangs start gathering, there is...

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Tabu Ley Rochereau - The Voice of Lightness 1 & 2

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:19:00 +0000

LISTEN (Look at "Listent Tracks") Lagos, 1977. It is the year of the second international festival of African Arts and Culture, great event to which artists coming from all Africa and from the African world diaspora, took part. On the festivals’ stage hundreds of musicians like Miriam Makeba, les Ballets Africains, Osibisa, King Sunny Ade,...

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Ivory Coast Soul

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:22:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") The situation in Ivory Coast is terribly nervous. On 28 November of last year, the opposition leader Alassane Ouattara, originating from Burkina Faso and of dioula ethnic, won the presidential elections but the ex president Laurent Gbabgo, of bête ethnic, said that this was the result of serious electoral frauds...

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Collins Oke Elaiho & His Odoligie Nobles

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:52:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") Our exploration of Bini music from Nigeria continues, but this time purchased close to home, in one of the numerous African stores hiding in the folds of our periphery, external to the capital. There are many good reasons to write about Edo – or Bini – music, most important is because the Edo community is one...

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Angola Soundtrack

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:40:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") The last compilation from Analog Africa is this time dedicated to the Angolan sound during the period of war for independence that runs from 1968 to 78. Listening to it has sweetly touched me. We have already spoken about this music, but not enough. “During the 60ies, while the rest of Africa was getting rid...

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Hedzoleh Soundz & Sweet Talks

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:24:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") Accra, Ghana, 6 March 1971. Thousands of people were packing up Black Star Square, while on the stage of the Soul to Soul Concert for two days the Ghanaian and Nigerians afro-rock and afro-soul bands alternate with the big stars of Afro-American soul. This is how Roerta Flack, The Voices of East Harlem, the...

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Jazzhole Records - Highlife Extravaganza

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:02:00 +0000

SENI TEJUOSO, FATAI ROLLING DOLLAR, SINA AYINDE BAKARE LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") Jazzhole Records is an independent label based in 168 of Awolowo Road in the residential area of Ikoyi, in Lagos, Nigeria. Created in the beginning of the 90ies together with the Glendora Books library from Kunle Tejuoso (see photo), Jazzhole is also...

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Ebo Taylor - Love and Death

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:37:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") When a couple of years ago the academic touch of Quinton Scott of the Strut made the magic of sounds from the old wizard Ethiopian composer of jazz; Mulatu Astatke re-live, we all felt a fresh and frizzy sensation of astonishment, when he was brought back in a recording room together with the Heliocentric, after...

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The World Ends

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:45:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") Trapped into a curious and senseless addiction to abundance, I was uncertain about the opportunity of writing also about the lastly born, amongst the many fantastic Nigerian music compilations of the obscure and unpublished 70ies, released again by the magic of Soundway Records of Chief Commander Miles Cleret. ...

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Madou Sidiki Diabate - Buru Ju

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:44:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "isten Tracks") There is so much music in Africa and how much of it stays hidden in the public squares or in the villages or in the streets of the suburbs of the city, in the courtyards, in the huts, between the bush in the countryside or in the sands of the desert! Africa is close sometimes, even closer than what we expect,...

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Kelefaba

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:36:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") Jola Kelefa, Badora Jola Ialah Kelefa a la Tambo be Barria Mingdolo Banta, Mingdolo Banta Kelefa Ba La Mingdolo Banta Jola Kelefa comes from Badora and has died He left his spear in Barria He finished all his water supply The great Kelefa, has finished all his water supply ------ Sou ole be dongna, sou ole...

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Africa, dance and its hybrids

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:28:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen tracks") The evolution of today’s dancemusic is a mysterious fruit coming from different seeds. On one side we find fun, which in different societies and times can be an harmonious evasion or alienation – integrated or illegal – from the roughness of life. On the other side we have the technological evolution,...

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Next Stop Soweto - vol. 2 & 3

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:27:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen racks") As already predicted, starting from this summer, South Africa emerged in many ways and with rivers of words more or less sweet and triumphant. Regarding the music this South African season will remain in the memory of many only because of Shakira’s pidgin English and for the so hated trumpets. The music of...

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King Sunny Ade - Baba Mo Tunde

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:28:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") Sunny Adé, Iwo l’Olòrun fun, enikan torotoro Olòrun o fun,iwo l’Olòrun fun. Sunny Ade, you have been gifted by God. Also if somebody asks and asks, God cannot give him anything. You have been rewarded by God. We are in Lagos, or in Ibadan, or in Ilorin, or in any Yoruba city in south western Nigeria. The sun is...

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Konono n° 1 - Assume Crash Position

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:31:00 +0000

By ROBERTO LYCKE LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") The first time I managed to assist to a live exhibition of Konono N. 1 was some year ago in Villa Ada, it was a hot roman summer evening. The musicians entered dribs and drabs on stage together with a couple of dancers who seemed to be there by mistake according to their dresses. Under...

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Ambassador Joseph Osayomore

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:58:00 +0000

LISTEN (Ulele in Transit & Over the Bar) Joseph Osayomore comes from the Edo State, a region in Nigeria between the Yoruba land and the Niger delta which we have already encountered thanks to Paul Ede and Victor Uwaifo, where during the past centuries the glorious Benin Empire developed. He was born at the end of the forties in a village not far...

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Deep kora from Gabu

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:51:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") Night in Gabu drops quickly into the stomach of the earth. The shadows brush away the red coloured reflection from faces and things and suddenly we are in the dark, in the void. Birimin den - a kora is playing besides us. We are still sticky for the heat that has just left us and we are lying on the carpets,...

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Saba - Biyo

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:55:00 +0000

... Thank to MULATU ASTATKE (STEPS AHEAD) LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") It is comforting to find that the world is also present in our homeland, so much attached to itself and to the pureness of its imaginary roots to thee xtent that it does not want to see the interbreed from which it descends from nor the inescapable half-cast it is...

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Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars - Rise and Shine

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:25:00 +0000

LISTEN (Look at "Listen Tracks") Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars is the symbol of the recent dark pages of Africa’s history; the bloody civil war began in 1991 which tormented Sierra Leone for ten years, ending in 2001. The victims of this bloody orgy are thousands of civilians, killed or mutilated both in their body and mind. Under the...

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Stars of Mali

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Mon, 24 May 2010 09:20:00 +0000

SALIF KEITA - ALI FARKA TOURE - TOUMANI DIABATE - BAKO DAGNON LISTEN (Look at "Listen Tracks") Three albums released almost at the same time, played by four artists who all together can represent most part of the immense universe of Malian music. Salif Keita was the first to make Malian music known to that part of the world that is found...

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Jaliya in Casamance

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:36:00 +0000

Translation from Mandinka by dt. ABDOULAYE DIARRA “First of all thank you for having come here in Darisalam to Diebate Kunda. It is not easy to have friends like you and we thank God”." Darisalam is a very small village of twenty families in the heart of inner Casamance, a few kilometres from Tanaf, rough small town of dust and huts. It...

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Viva Nigeria!

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:25:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "Listen Tracks") At the end of the sixties, while Nigeria was torn to pieces by the civil war, young Fela Kuti was in California where he was in contact with the ideals of the Afro-American cultural movement of the black power. It is from here that the music and the political turn over took place. Other than being our reaction...

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Next Stop Soweto

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:27:00 +0000

LISTEN: (Look at "listen Tracks") The SOuth WEst TOwnship of Johannesburg is known as Soweto, it can be rightly defined the true black capital of South Africa, an immense confused mosaic made up of tin plated shacks where during the last ten years the proud and tragic story of the indigenous people belonging to this tormented land has taken...

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Jaliya in Tambasansang

noreply@blogger.com (GM) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:26:00 +0000

El Hadji Lamine Suso and his father Tambasansang is a Mandingo village situated in the region of the high river Gambia, a few kilometres from Basse. It is useless to look for it on the Lonely Planet because the famous touristic guide book stops more than 10 kms before in Janjabureh - best known as Georgetown Island - site of the famous fortress...

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