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Zaki Ibrahim (Sth Africa/Canada)

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Track: Money (King Britt Mix)
Album: Eclectica (Episodes in Purple)
Genre: Soul
Country: South Africa/Canada
Release date: April 2009 (Vid: July 2010)
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New FIFA World Cup single from Kelly Rowland, Chameleone, 2face, Zuluboy, etc.

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Artists: Kelly Rowland, Chameleone, 2face, Zuluboy, Awadi, Krotal, Rola, Jozi, Slikour, Kwesta, Samini
Countries: USA, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Cameroon, Ghana

Track:       Everywhere You Go (MTN / 2010 FIFA World Cup song)
Album:       Single only
Genre:       Pop
Released: 13th April, 2010

Another week, another World Cup theme song. This time it’s the turn of MTN, an African mobile phone provider and one of the official FIFA World Cup 2010 sponsors. Wanna guess how much this cost 'em? Click on "Read More"
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Welcome to Lagos. What do you think?

Monday, 26 April 2010

If the only documentaries about the UK seen by the world's TV viewing audience were about poverty and teen pregnancies in places like Salford, or about the country's prison population, or about football hooligans and the far-right doing Nazi salutes, I don't think the UK government would be particularly thrilled.

So it is understandable that Nigeria's federal government has lodged a formal complaint against the BBC for portraying Lagos as a slum. Click on "Read More".
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The future is closer than we think: Hot cities, Africa

Friday, 23 April 2010

Yesterday was Earth Day, but events, rallies, and various activities relating to the subject of climate change are going on around the world all week, so it seems apt to run Episodes 5 (Dakar) and 1 (Lagos) from the BBC's Hot Cities series that originally aired last October/November.

Climate change is starting to affect the way we live (it's no longer just about some shrinking polar ice caps thousands of miles aways). While the consequences are most noticeable in certain parts of Africa, Asia, Alaska and in island nations such as the Maldives, we know now that it's only a matter of time before everybody everywhere feels the pain. Click on "Read More"
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Back to Africa: Brain drain to brain gain

Thursday, 22 April 2010
In comparison with the estimated 30,000 African professionals who leave the continent to work in Europe or America, the number of those moving back "home" is more a trickle than a flow. Nonetheless, the "repat" trend was becoming noticeable even before the recent global economic meltdown. Click on "Read More" Read More Add Comment (0) Hits: 121

AFROLUTION VOL. 2 hits the stores

Sunday, 18 April 2010

Album:       AFROLUTION VOL. 2
Genre:        Hip hop
Released:   June 2010

Out in May!

Track:       Bienvenue à Poto Poto
Artist:        AURA (Artistes Unis pour le Rap Africain, aka United Artists for African Rap)
Country:    Various West African

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mondomix
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Amazon

If you want a snapshot of where African hip hop is at today, a pretty good place to start is the Afrolution series. In 2005, Vol. 1 brought us some of the freshest Francophone and Anglophone African hip hop around, and the guys are set to do it again come the end of May. Click on "Read More" to listen to more tracks from this album.
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