MetaFilter posts tagged with Africa and Mali

All aboard for the Africa Express

criticalbill — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:07:02 -0800

A preview version of a 20-minute film following Damon Albarn as he and other western musicians (including Franz Ferdinand and Fatboy Slim) travel to Mali, Nigeria and Congo as part of the Africa Express, a sprawling musical collective collaboration between Africans (including Toumani Diabate, Baaba Maal and Tony Allen) Americans and Europeans. The film includes a visit and concert at The Shrine for last year's Felabration. I don't know how long this will be up for. But some more videos of Africa Express performances can be found here

Out of Africa

netbros — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:55:43 -0800

Out of Africa. As award-winning Globe and Mail Africa correspondent Stephanie Nolen bids farewell to a place she's come to love, she reflects on how it has changed, and how it changed her. Africa photo gallery

music videos from West Africa

nickyskye — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:28:51 -0800

#1 African Music Website. Africa Hit offers an extensive and varied selection of great music videos from West Africa. Africa Hit news, in French and English, mostly music biz news in West African countries: Cote D'Ivoire, Congo(R.D.C), Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroun, Mali, Guinée and Senegal. Happy New Year!

did we see it go by??

pwedza — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:27:24 -0800

the first African sponsored World Social Forum has just come to an end... images (in French)

Mali gets nothing for its grain

languagehat — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:08:49 -0800

The failure of biotech. "In June 1996, the University of California, Davis, began an unprecedented effort to help the West African nation of Mali, using the promising and controversial new tool of agricultural biotechnology... Eight years later, no help whatsoever has arrived... In the hopes that inspired the effort - and the missteps that stifled it - lies a drama larger than the sum of its parts, one that shows both the promise and pitfalls of the largest technological leap in American agriculture since the tractor: biotechnology." The start of a five-part series in the Sacramento Bee: long, but well worth it. (Via MonkeyFilter.)

Rail Bands and Super Motels

languagehat — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:44:42 -0800

A history of Malian pop music. Confused by the interlocking names and associations of the stars of West African music? This lively account by Lisa Denenmark should help (and a follow-up is promised). Via the indispensible Afropop Worldwide.

languagehat — Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:54:11 -0800

Eight hundred years ago, the Empire of Mali was the West African equivalent of Byzantium (succeeding Ghana's Rome), and its legendary founder was Sundiata. [more]