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’t surprised to learn that the name of their new CD is , “Take Back the Mic” - a [...]

I am very proud of my heritage and it helps me set myself apart from others.

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 [...]

South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year’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 “new” South Africa, received the prize at a ceremony last night at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.
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My introduction to Salif Keita was via the song, “Nou Pas Bouger” on an African Music show that ran on NTA 2 Channel 5 on Sundays’ in Nigeria. I remember running to the television set and staring in awe at the wonderful sounds emanating from this man. Our introduction didn’t end there, as [...]