Music Break. Gasandji
DRC born, France based Gasandji‘s “Na lingui yo.”
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Black Bazar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=841i137-CYg Alain Mabanckou’s 2009 novel Black Bazar spoke successfully to and about the African diaspora in
Music Break. Vincent Segal & Ballaké Sissoko
French cellist Vincent Segal and kora master Ballaké Sissoko (from Mali) recorded the 2009 ‘Chamber Music’
The whole ‘Afrobeats’ thing
Afrobeats is broadly what most people think when they try to define black music in the UK. But it is hard to pin down.
Hollandaise sauce
The children of immigrants prefer Francois Hollande and the Socialists in France's presidential elections. (Paris is a Continent, number7.)
The Year of Frantz Fanon
What gives Fanon's thinking its force and power is the air of indestructibility and the inexhaustible silo of humanity which it houses, argues Achille Mbembe.
Massalia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRwz-flV2dE French IAM member Akhenaton and Faf Larage (brother to other IAM rapper Shurik’n) clearly had
Music Break. Kouyaté-Neerman
We read that the balafon is being considered for inclusion on Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
Black France
The presence of black people in France spans the last three centuries.
Demba Ba
Demba Ba has a habit of falling to his knees post-goal and praying.
Omar Sy, French movie icon
By Abdourahman Waberi Released only a week ago, ‘Intouchables’ the film (by Eric Toledano & Olivier
Music Break / Nëggus & Kungobram
Kungobram, an ensemble of French musicians, has teamed up with Togolese slammer Nëggus (here reminiscing about
Law and Disorder
"Law and Order," opened its 13th season with a very transparent plot based on the Dominique Strauss Kahn rape case. It is not very good.
"Making French money isn't easy"
Mamani Keita arrived in Paris in the late eighties as a backing vocalist for Salif Keita.
Music Break / Youssoupha
Kinshasa-born rapper Youssoupha moved to France at the age of 10. Ever since releasing his first
Music Break / Fatoumata Diawara
Easy listening. ‘Bassa’ is a song by the Côte d’Ivoire-born, Mali-raised and now France-based artist Fatoumate
Music Break / Lalcko
French-Cameroonian rapper Lalcko released a strong record earlier this year: ‘L’eau lave mais l’argent rend propre.’
The Whites-Only French
France today is struggling with race because — unlike its former colonies — it never actually went through its own process of decolonization.
Music Break
French-Congolese musician Abd Al Malik’s star is rising fast in Francophone Europe. Behind his, say, rather