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The Malawi music festival bringing hope to its refugee residents
Malawi’s Dzaleka refugee camp, a sprawling former political prison housing 20,000 internally displaced people, is an unlikely home for a vibrant arts festival. The Tumaini arts festival’s Congolese founder, Menes La Plume, is clear in his ambitions: he wants to change the way refugees are perceived across the world, and…
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Meklit’s We Are Alive will get any decent party rocking
Ethiopian born jazz/soul singer Meklit’s We Are Alive has all the ingredients of an essential summer soundtrack. The album, which will be released on 4th of May thanks to Six Degrees Records, blends folk, jazz and blues into an irresistible party vibe, with Meklit staying true to her roots with a…
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Interview with Fatoumata Diawara
Originally posted on I'm Clyde Macfarlane, an NCTJ qualified journalist and illustrator.: Interview with Fatoumata Diawara Hailed as Africa’s best interpretation of the ‘girl with a guitar’ archetype, Fatoumata Diawara is the latest Malian to be signed by World Circuit, the label that provided a platform for such legends as…
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Interview with The Lijadu Sisters
Originally posted on I'm Clyde Macfarlane, an NCTJ qualified journalist and illustrator.: Interview with The Lijadu Sisters Most women in afrobeat fit into two well established roles: erotic dancers or backing singers. In the former they are sex objects, in the latter they are background figures by definition. Fela Kuti,…
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The Heart of the Congos
And Africa dream a dream and behold darkness spread over the whole earth and in the new dark days of righteousness …
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HAL seizes the controls at No. 6 Cinema
There is a great comfort blanket when seeing a horror movie- it’s always only a film. You are safe in the audience. That terrifying scene at the end of The Ring when the girl crawls out of the TV screen was a one-off freak occurrence, right? Although hardly a horror,…
I'm Clyde Macfarlane, an NCTJ qualified journalist and illustrator. 