After two days travelling non stop in a Renault 21. I had the pleasure of reaching the capital of Mali, Bamako.I din't expected it to be so green but the river Niger passes through slicing the city in two. I crossed the bridge "le pont des martirs" twice by foot and my head went spinning with the flow of "mobillettes", cars and small buses that kept passing as if in a loop. By...
Here is the playlist for the world music show I hosted for John on WEFT. Buffy Saint-Marie -- “No No Keshagesh” from Running For The Drum Cyril Pahinui -- “Hawaiian Cowboy” from Night Moon Growling Tiger -- “Senorita Panchita” from Alan Lomax Collection Sampler Cyprus Smith -- “Sambo Caesar (Caribbean)” from Alan Lomax Collection Sampler Growling Tiger...
PARIS - Armed men kidnapped a French humanitarian aid worker from his hotel in northern Mali overnight, in a region where Islamists from al-Qaida's North Africa branch have been active, officials said Thursday. The man was kidnapped from a hotel in the town of Menaka, located about 1,537 kilometres from the capital, near Mali's border with Niger, said Alwaadhat Ag Saratout, a local leader in the town....
The talented and gorgeous Senegalese actress Aissa Maiga, whose image appears regularly on the top of this site from the film Mamadou and who won the 2007 Cesar Award for most promising actress her her performance in Abderrahmane Sissako’s Bamako, plays the lead in an upcoming new thriller When the City Bites. Directed by Dominique Cabbera, the [...]
Adam has once again been up to a serious amount in Africa and is currently on the Niger River. The Niger is the route Adam and his travelling amigos have chosen for getting to their next destination, “There are three main ferries that the COMANAV company have going from just outside Bamako, ...
This year’s London African Film Festival kicks off this Thursday. Under its previous moniker, Africa At The Pictures, it tended to showcase restored classics from African cinema greats such as Ousmane Sembene (Camp de Thiaroye), and give exposure to more contemporaroy traditional narrative filmmakers such as Mahamet-Saleh Haroun (Daratt) and Abderrahmane Sissako (Bamako). This year, however,...
STA Explorer Cut to Africa, or Adam depending on familiarity, has been up to a lot since we last checked in. You can see how he got on with Nuns in Bamako, read about an RTA with a cow and what he did during a few days in Gabu. However, ...
Our STA Explorer Adam has been partaking in all things ‘touristy’ in the town of Bamako, Mali including riding horses at the Hippodrome and visiting a fetish market.. yes, really! “I know what you are thinking, but this market specialises in animist and strange artefacts for the more unusual religious practices. ...
The 13th UNCTAD's African Oil, Gas, Minerals, Trade and Finance Conference, takes off toady in Bamako, Mali with focus on the critical role information can play in the natural-resource sector.
Confronted with a need to recruit more teachers necessary to attain Education for All (EFA) goals in Africa by 2015 and the need for quality in education delivery, the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), the World Bank, Education International (EI) and the Malian Ministry of Basic Education, Literacy and National Languages brought stakeholders from 22 countries to Bamako,...
CD REVIEW various artists: Jazz Around the World (Putumayo) World Torch? Global Nightclub? There's got to be a better title for this disc, which may fall under the broad umbrella of "jazz," but is certainly a narrow slice of the global jazz available today. Granted, Putumayo are playing to the audience they've built up with their relatively smooth, accessible series of CDs, and the included...
Amadou & Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) (born in Bamako 24 October 1954) and Mariam Doumbia (vocals) (born in Mali’s capital... High quality download and some links hidden from RSS feed, click through to http://www.feelmybicep.com for full download
GAO VILLAGE, Mali, 23 October 2009 – In the village of Gao, some 1200 km away from Mali's capital city of Bamako, local children were given the special chance to speak to UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne – live from space.
SAN, 23 October 2009 (IRIN) - Have you checked in with your breastfeeding support group? If you were a woman who gave birth in one of Mali’s 48 “baby-friendly hospitals”, you should have been assigned to one that checked up on you – often as soon as minutes after the delivery. In San village, 380km north of the capital Bamako, dozens of mothers in 2005 formed the “Good...
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