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    May the winds of change sweep Africa;...

    A hip-hop artist calling for a revolution might sound like business as usual, but when the country in question...

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    A touch of Motown in Nigeria: Bez's "That...

    No Autotune, no programmed loops, no fronting, fancy cars or gyrating girls. This is "classic" Motown (with a...

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  • "Heart of Light" - DJ Zhao's Classic African Rumba and Soukous mix

    “Heart of Light” , the last words uttered publicly by democratically elected president Patrice Lumumba at his inauguration address, 3 months before his murder by Belgium and CIA because he dared to oppose the Western global forces of oppression and planned to keep the wealth of the Congo for the Congo.  Freedom and hope was killed in 1961, with disastrous consequences, but The Heart of Light can never die… more >