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LUO NYATITI MUSIC FROM KENYA
Nyatiti is an eight-stringed plucked lyre from Kenya. It is a classical instrument used by the Luo people located in the Nyanza western region in Kenya. It is about three feet long. The player of Nyatiti holds it to his chest, seated on a low stool, with the base firmly to the ground. Usually it is played together … Read the rest
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Revolt of the Black athlete The hidden history of Muhammad Ali By David Zirin
Appeared in International Socialist Review Issue 33, January–February 2004 Dave Zirin is the author of Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports (Haymarket Books, 2007), The Muhammad Ali Handbook (MQ Publications, 2007), and What’s My Name, Fool? (Haymarket Books, 2005). He is Press Action’s 2005 and 2006 Sportswriter of the Year, and has been called “an … Read the rest
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Part.4. African’s Peacefull Means: structural Violence in Africa
The last decades in Africa have been marred by unprecedented levels of political, ethnic, and transnational conflict. This continent is one of the major battlegrounds of global forces; it is the most marginalized areas of the world. More than thirty wars have been fought in Africa since 1970, and most of these have been internal rather than inter-state wars. In … Read the rest
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Listing of Select Africa and Afro-Diasporan Art Exhibitions Worldwide
Listing of Select African and Afro-Diasporan Art Exhibitions Worlwide. A hand-picked listing of African and Afro-Diasporan art events happening around the world, updated weekly. Follow us on Instagram for more art news, photos and updates. “Njideka Akunyili Crosby” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA. In her Los Angeles debut, Nigerian-American artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby brings her large scale works … Read the rest
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Le déserteur – Johan Galtung sings Boris Vian
The Artwork was done by the one and only: Xiaonan -get ready to want one- Sun: http://www.theportraitart.com/video_i… Pioneering founder of the Academic discipline of Peace Studies, Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung turned 80 on Sunday 24th of October 2010. Here is a recording of Prof. Johan Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode: Le déserteur by Boris Vian. Song: Le Déserteur Lyrics … Read the rest
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Revista de Literatura y Oralidad de las Neoáfricas y del Caribe en criollización: RAÏS NEZA BONEZA: Current poetry of the Congo
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