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Musician of the Week: Oum

Published On Sunday, May 19, 2013. Under: World News.

Oum is the first word of moroccan first name Oum El Ghaït, which means » Mother of relief « , and that used to be given to baby girls born in the desert in a rainy day or night. Oum wears well her name; her music generously brings in its flow feelings, dreams, and stories inspired by her own vision of the world. Her singular voice, at the same time soft and powerful succeeds in combining the elements of her original culture, and those of a universal musical heritage whom she investigates. (...) - World News

Musician of the Week: Bob Marley

Published On Thursday, May 16, 2013. Under: World News.

Editor's note: The great Bob Marley passed away May 11 1981. As a token of our recognition and respect for the man after 32 years of his demise, we hereby republish this article, something we shall be doing every year for him and other great African musicians. Nesta Robert Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981), more widely and commonly known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and (...) - World News

Musician of the Week: Peter Tosh

Published On Monday, May 06, 2013. Under: World News.

Peter Tosh (born Winston Hubert McIntosh, 19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987), was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers (1963–1974), and who afterwards had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari. Peter Tosh was born in Grange Hill, Jamaica, and was raised by his aunt. He began to sing and learn guitar at an early age, inspired by American radio stations. After a notable career with The Wailers and as a solo (...) - World News

Final Edition of the Late Sekou Dauda Bangura’s Sierra Leone Newsletter

Published On Sunday, April 28, 2013. Under: World News.

Ladies and Gentlemen: We publish herewith the program for tomorrow's 40th day charity for the late Sekou Dauda Bangura. Program for this event is titled the “Final issue of the Sierra Leonean News Letter” , his first magazine in the US. We received many tributes from friends and relatives but due to space constraints in the final edition of this News Letter, we could not publish all the tributes and even had to truncate those tributes that we published including the much (...) - World News

Final Edition of the Late Sekou Dauda Bangura’s Sierra Leone Newsletter

Published On Sunday, April 28, 2013. Under: World News.

Ladies and Gentlemen: We publish herewith the program for tomorrow's 40th day charity for the late Sekou Dauda Bangura. Program for this event is titled the “Final issue of the Sierra Leonean News Letter”, his first magazine in the US. We received many tributes from friends and relatives but due to space constraints in the final edition of this News Letter, we could not publish all the tributes and even had to truncate those tributes that we published including the much (...) - World News

Musician of the Week: Johnny Clegg

Published On Sunday, April 21, 2013. Under: World News.

Jonathan "Johnny" Clegg (born 7 June 1953) is a British-born musician from South Africa, who has recorded and performed with his bands Juluka and Savuka, and more recently as a solo act, occasionally reuniting with his earlier band partners. Sometimes called Le Zoulou Blanc ("The White Zulu"), he is an important figure in South African popular music history, with songs that mix Zulu with English lyrics and African with various Western music styles. Clegg was born in Bacup, Lancashire, to (...) - World News

Canada: Justin Trudeau is New Liberal Leader

Published On Monday, April 15, 2013. Under: World News.

Credit: cbc.ca Newly elected Liberal Party of Canada Leader Justin Trudeau took to the stage before a crowd of over 1,000 supporters gathered in Ottawa with a message of unity and hope with an eye to the next election in 2015. Trudeau, in his victory speech, acknowledged expectations are high and in an effort to rally Liberals of all stripes said, "I don't care if you thought my father was great or arrogant." "It doesn't matter to me if you were a Chrétien-Liberal, a (...) - World News / Cover Story

U.S. Relations with Africa: G-4 in the White House

Published On Friday, April 05, 2013. Under: World News.

Commentary By Dr. Peter A. Dumbuy, Freetown, Sierra Leone. . Introduction Of the four countries—I call them the G-4—whose Prime Minister, José Maria Pereira Neves of Cape Verde, and Presidents, Joyce Banda of Malawi, Macky Sall of Senegal, and Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, President Barack Obama invited to the White (...) - World News / Cover Story

Musician of the Week: Tony Allen

Published On Sunday, March 31, 2013. Under: World News.

Tony Oladipo Allen (born August 12, 1940 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter who currently lives and works in Paris. He is currently writing his autobiography "Tony Allen: Master Drummer of Afrobeat" with author/musician Michael E. Veal, who has previously written a comprehensive biography of Fela Kuti. As drummer and musical director of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's band Africa 70 from 1968 to 1979, Tony Allen was one of the primary co-founders of the genre of (...) - World News

African Leaders Outline Roots of Stability, Economic Growth

Published On Saturday, March 30, 2013. Under: World News.

By Viola Gienger, USIP. One president expressed support for reducing the term of his office to five years from seven. Another said she was determined to continue unpopular but necessary reforms even if it costs her re-election. A third has pulled his police and military forces through security sector reform. And a prime minister has eight women among his 15 government ministers. The four top leaders of countries in sub-Saharan Africa stand in repudiation of the worst stereotypes – (...) - World News

YWCA: Over Five Decades Training Sierra Leonean Women

Published On Sunday, March 24, 2013. Under: World News.

Commentary In today's global economy, tertiary education and practical training play a pivotal role and could help a poor nation like Sierra Leone assert its economic independence and complete freedom. Rather than being eternally dependent on aid from donors' deep pockets as if caught in a monkey trap, the continent of Africa needs to start manufacturing things and providing services that create jobs and investing in relevant education and opportunities for a template healthy (...) - World News

Musician of the Week: Sorie Kondi

Published On Saturday, March 16, 2013. Under: World News.

Sorie Kondi, Sierra Leone's famous blind kondi player, who is in many ways the country's Stevie Wonder (although not rich or internationally famous). He is a household name in his native land where he taught himself to play the kondi instrument at an early age, and due to his prowess and ingenuity in playing the instrument, earned the name, Sorie Kondi. His music and performance will never stop to amaze his audience, after escaping and emerging from the ruins and wreckage of (...) - World News

Musician of the Week: King Sunny Ade

Published On Sunday, March 10, 2013. Under: World News.

"King" Sunny Adé (born Sunday Adeniyi, September 22, 1946) is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian jùjú music and a pioneer of modern world music. He has been classed as one of the most influential musicians of all time. Adé was born to a Nigerian royal family in Ondo, thus making him an Omoba of the Yoruba people. His father was a church organist, while his mother was a trader. Adé left grammar school in Ondo under the pretense of going to the University of Lagos. There, in Lagos, his (...) - World News

Musician of the Week: King Sunny Ade

Published On Sunday, March 10, 2013. Under: World News.

Foulah Town Association USA, congratulates Alhaji Abdul Rahman Hamid / Jamieu Salaam

Published On Sunday, March 03, 2013. Under: World News.

THE FOULAH TOWN ASSOCIATION USA extends their thanks and appreciation to the following individuals and their families for their combined donation of $1,300.00, which was presented to the Jamieu Salaam / Foulah Town by Alpha Hadiru Tejan on Sunday the 10th of February 2013, in recognition of the ordainment of Jamieu Salaam's renowned Imam Alhaji Abdul Rahman Najmul-Huda Hamid: Alhaji & Haja Sanusi & Family Alhaji & Haja Bunn Kamara & Family Alhaji Sorie Jawara & (...) - World News

Musician of the Week: Lucky Dube

Published On Saturday, February 23, 2013. Under: World News.

Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced doo-beh) (3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007. Lucky Dube was born in Ermelo, formerly of the Eastern Transvaal, now of Mpumalanga, on 3 August 1964. His parents separated before his birth and he (...) - World News

Musician of the Week: Manu Dibango

Published On Sunday, February 17, 2013. Under: World News.

Emmanuel 'Manu' N'Djoké Dibango (born 12 December 1933) is a Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk and traditional Cameroonian music. He is a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, though his mother was a Duala. He is best known for his 1972 afrobeat single "Soul Makossa". Dibango was born in Douala, Cameroon. His father, Michel Manfred N'Djoké Dibango was a civil servant. The son of a farmer, he met his wife (...) - World News

Musician of the Week: Oumou Sangare

Published On Sunday, February 10, 2013. Under: World News.

Oumou Sangaré (born February 25, 1968 in Bamako, Mali) is a Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou". Wassoulou is a historic region south of the Niger River, and the music there is descended from traditional hunting songs, and is accompanied by a calabash. Sangaré's mother was the singer Aminata Diakité. Early life As a child, Oumou Sangaré sang in order to help her mother feed their family as her father had abandoned (...) - World News

Musician of the Week: Emerson Bockarie

Published On Monday, February 04, 2013. Under: World News.

Emerson Amidu Bockarie (born on December 23, 1977 in Kenema, Sierra Leone) better known by his first name Emerson is an internationally recognised Sierra Leonean afropop musician and the biggest and most famous musician from Sierra Leone at present. He uses his music against political corruption in Sierra Leone, while addressing the struggle of poor Sierra Leoneans. He sings mostly in Krio and English. Early life and careerEmerson Amidu Bockarie was born in Sierra Leone's third (...) - World News