Category Archives: ngoma

Awesome Tapes from Africa

For those of you who love this particular tape culture from the continent, pls head over to “Awesome Tapes from Africa”, activate your delicious playtagger javascript bookmark/Browser button and tune into lots of fine songs.

Thank you, Brian!

It really makes …

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rumba…

Steve already received his copy the other day, and since I found a perfect deal to secure mine for only 10,- EUR, I just couldn’t resist…
For more literature on contemporary music from the continent, here’s an interesting PDF (~0,2 …

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nimekuchagua wewe

Ingawa wapo wengi wazuri mamiii, lakini nimekuchagua wewe, tabia zako sawa na sura yako, nimeridhika kuwa na wewe…(“Afro”, Les Wanyika.)

It was a blessed morning, and something had made me get up early. Last night’s dream brought back pictures of …

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Owiyo live @ Club Afrique

Suzzana Owíyo live @ Club Afrique
Are there any bloggers & readers out there who are going to attend this event?

Btw – is there any other Kenyan blog out there (despite of artmatters.info) that covers the art scene …

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all the way…

…from Canada via Kenya to Germany:

A very nice letter with 4 DVDs by a fellow blogger from KBW.
The story goes that I once blogged about some software installation issues in Embu, and our fellow blogger offered some help. Since …

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