Before Facebook was the “Talking Drum”
A Drum is not just a Drum. For most Africans, music and dance are the ultimate expressions of life, culture, history and tradition. The drum,
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Capoeira, beyond the human eyes
In the uplifting documentary ‘Slums, Drums and Capoeira’ Maestre Moraes declared that “Capoeira for me is a way of living. Whereby you reach out to
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Where is my “Honey & Milk”, Abroad or back Home?
As immigrants from “developing” countries, many of us have left our home nations in search for a “better” life in the “developed” west. We predominantly
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Celebrating Black Arts and Cultures: The 2010 World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures (Festival Mondial Des Arts Negres) in Senegal
Initially by president and poet Léopold Sédar Senghor in 1966 with a mandate to “allow as many artists of black orijin to be known and
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