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Sam Mangwana: Y a d'la rumba dans l'air slateafrique.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from slateafrique.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Questlove explains how his film Summer of Soul excavates a moment of Black musical excellence, the Harlem Cultural Festival, that was forgotten for decades. I have lost count of the number of concerts that I have seen in this lifetime. But there are a few that have left a Memorex memory. One of them is The Roots. It was the mid 1990s. And the venue was the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. I was in grad school at Howard, so down time with lots of music was imperative for my sanity. Do You Want More ?!!!??!, the “Illadelphia” band’s second studio album, stayed in constant rotation on my CD player. And finally experiencing them in person was glorious. They were artists who altered the course of urban music by producing an organic hip hop jazz soundtrack of an unforgettable time in many lives. ....
TRAVELOGUE: Inside the fun and thrills of a week in Congo Kinshasa, By Wale Okediran With a population of about 100 million, Congo Kinshasa is the most populous Francophone country in the world, and the 4th-most populous in Africa. 8 min read My first glimpse of Kinshasa was the River Congo. As the African World Airline AWA Flight 342 from Accra, Ghana, continued to circle in the air while awaiting permission to land, the sight of the gloriously serpentine river was a temporary relief to the anxiety of waiting. Moments later, when the airport closure due to a ‘VIP Movement’ was over, the aircraft descended into the turbid embrace of a collection of clouds before erupting into the brilliant Congolese sunshine. That was when the river came fully into view. From my aerial position, I could see the river and its fan-shaped web of tributaries as it meandered through the vast mass of land before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. ....
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Mar 15, 2019 10 African Cities Known for Music Music is the voice of a people’s culture. African music is the sound of the continent s culture. While every community in Africa has its own kind of music, there are certain countries that have more established music centers than others. We are going to consider African cities where music is dominant in terms of music infrastructure and the culture of music as a people’s way of life. Here we go! 10. Ouagadougou Ouagadougou is the capital city of Burkina Faso. Baptized by the legendary Thomas Sankara, this city is famous for its traditional music setup. However, you can still find a blend of modern music, in addition to traditional musical entertainment. ....