Category Archives: ngoma

Black Moses

“I ain’t go anywhere in the United States of America and see another black man and give him a power shake…and there’s unity there. There’s a beauty there that I can communicate with this brother…”

Right on.

(via on-point.be)

I’d seen this …

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Ndanka ndanka mooy japa golo chi nyaay

Ndanka ndanka mooy japa golo chi nyaay is a Wolof proverb meaning “slowly slowly (it) catches the monkey in the bush” (~ no hurry in Africa).

Ndanka ndanka…also is a running gag between my colleague Abdoulaye and me – and …

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The Finger 5

I was actually browsing our favourite pop archive YouTube when I came across this:

A Japanese band from the 1970s (1967-1978) called Finger 5. Makes me think I should cover more Japanese content on this blog.

Now that’s the …

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Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Have A Finger Of Fudge?

Harr…maybe some of you like it as much as I do + can somehow relate to it.

Track #05 “Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Have A Finger Of Fudge?”
(Cadbury’s Fudge jingle / Ad from the 70′s/ 80′s)
(The Beach Boys ‘Wouldn’t …

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bremer beat generation

Ein liebenswerter Artikel von Gerhard Augustin über…sich selbst…der heute auf der einestages website erschienen ist. einestages möchte das “kollektive Gedächtnis unserer Gesellschaft” sein – für mein Verständnis die Neon-Erweiterung des SPON mit ebenfalls moderierten Beiträgen.

Ich finde es auch immer …

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