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Omar Pene, co-founder and lead singer of the Dakar-based supergroup Super Dianomo, has been composing and playing for 50 years, releasing albums both with
Banning Eyre reviews and presents photographs from the 37th Nuits D'Afrique Festival in Montreal.
Real World has reissued six classic albums from the late 80's through the 90's of different African artists recording in the Real World studios in the village of Box, Wiltshire in the UK. I had four of these albums, but happily picked up the other two. Featuring six great artists and groups from Africa, the Master Musicians of Jajouka from Morocco, S. E. Rogie from Sierra Leone, Remmy Ongala from Tanzania, Farafina from Burkina Faso, and the last two, which are new to me, King Wasu Ayinde Marshal I from Nigeria, and Omar Pene and Super Diamano from Senegal. We will hear from all of them with a...
Nigerian Billionaire economist and philanthropist, Tony O. Elumelu, CFR has been awarded the ECOWAS Prize for Excellence. Elumelu won the Deserving Citizens ...
Banning Eyre speaks with Nick Gold about festivals in Mali and Ali Farka's posthumous release "Voyageur."