Gasper Nali is one of the musicians featured in the 2009 Deep Roots Malawi documentary. I haven’t seen the documentary yet (and I’m sure it could do without the dubious ‘heart of Africa’, ‘undiscovered’ and ‘lost heritage’) but Nkhata Bay sure sounds attractive. Especially on a Sunday afternoon. H/T: Bart Deweer

Further Reading

Goodbye, Piassa

The demolition of an historic district in Addis Ababa shows a central contradiction of modernization: the desire to improve the country while devaluing its people and culture.

And do not hinder them

We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.