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Ty (Remix fever!)
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Track: Heart is Breaking - Self-Taught Beats Remix
Album: Special Kind of Fool
Genre: Hip-hop
Country: UK / Nigeria
Release date: June 2010 (The remixes)
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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"
 
AFROLUTION VOL. 2 hits the stores
Sunday, 18 April 2010

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

Out in May!
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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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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Dream stealers: The African football scam
Thursday, 15 April 2010

See also
Ivorian adolescents tricked by football agent (afrol News)
Football Trafficking – The New Slave Trade
The scandal of Africa's trafficked players (The Guardian, UK)
Exposing Africa's football traffickers (The BBC)

 
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