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		<title>Rag Tag: Love isn&#8217;t Black and White</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Stitch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.africanloft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/rag-tag-movie.jpg" alt="" title="rag-tag-movie" width="229" height="157" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2235" /><br />Adaora Nwandu,  a Nigerian-British Screen writer opens up about her controversial movie Rag Tag.  A movie that puts an alternative spin on the question of love and sexuality.]]></description>
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		<title>The First ever Mr East Africa UK and 3rd Miss East Africa UK crowned in London</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 26th July 2008 was bound to be a historical day to be remembered even by those who did not attend the much anticipated event; with the crowning of the first ever Mr East Africa UK, the third Miss East Africa UK and the surprise crowning- Miss Kenya UK and it’s all thanks to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African Guitarists Rock Brooklyn!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Stitch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Prospect Park, Brooklyn was the place to be on Sunday August 3rd 2008, [click to watch video footage] - as popular African guitarists took the stage and wowed the listening audience with different sounds from  Africa. 
Here is a photo slide of the event:

  
  

The Guitar series was a seven hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jazz Song Bird Douye is on the Journey</title>
		<link>http://www.africanloft.com/jazz-song-bird-douye-on-the-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Stitch</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.africanloft.com/?p=2202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.africanloft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/douye_post_africanloft_homepage.jpg" alt="" title="douye_post_africanloft_homepage" width="229" height="119" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2206" /><br />Douye is a Nigerian-America singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. Douye's musical style is smooth jazz, soul, and R&#038;B.]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Soulfege Latest Album - Take back the Mic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Stitch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember getting the email that the long-awaited CD  from the Afro-Diasporic Groovalicious Funkadocious group,  Soulfege was out.  Being a huge fan of Soulfege and knowing the political bent of this group, I wasn&#8217;t surprised to learn that the name of their new CD is , &#8220;Take Back the Mic&#8221; - a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ugandan Songstress Omega Okello: &#8220;I use my music to showcase the positives of Africa&#8221; [Interview]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Stitch</dc:creator>
		
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I am very proud of my heritage and it helps me set myself apart from others.  ]]></description>
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		<title>In the Early Days of Fela</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Although many know the enigmatic Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the late Nigerian Afrobeat maestro, as a talented musician who used his music to speak to issues in the Nigerian social and political realms, but he didn’t start his career as an activist. In fact, Fela started his career singing songs like this: 

This rare footage of Fela [...]]]></description>
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		<title>£10,000 Caine Prize for South African Writer Henrietta Rose-Innes</title>
		<link>http://www.africanloft.com/10000-caine-prize-for-south-african-writer-henrietta-rose-innes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year&#8217;s £10,000 Caine prize for the best short story in English by an African writer. Rose-Innes, whose story Poison is a haunting vignette of the &#8220;new&#8221; South Africa, received the prize at a ceremony last night at Oxford University&#8217;s Bodleian Library.
More on the web
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		<title>Sade Adeniran - Author Of Award  Winning Book &#8216;Imagine This&#8217; Discusses the Process Of Self-Publishing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Stitch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<div align="center"><img src="http://www.africanloft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/sade_adeniran_home.jpg" alt="sade-adeniran-winner-of-best-first-book-africa-region-in-the-2008-commonwealth-writers-prize-" title="sade_adeniran_home" width="226" height="202" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2100" /></div><br />
Sade won the Best First Book Commonwealth award for Africa Region in the 2008.]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Author - Milton Davis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronica Henry</dc:creator>
		
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Author of "Meji" - an African based fantasy novel - writes African/Yoruba-based fantasy and science fiction.]]></description>
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