"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
Despite uncertainty and the ongoing conflict, Mali will work to rebuild and safeguard its cultural heritage, says the West African country’s minister of culture Bruno Maïga. Maïga was in Paris this week to attend a “day of solidarity with Mali” organised by the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO at its headquarters here.
A Nigerian diviner dances and sings next to a Brazilian priest of the Candomblé religion, brought to this South American country by African slaves, that is now being rescued from oblivion in school texts on national history and culture.
The UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences, controversially endowed by Equatorial Guinea, was finally awarded in Paris yesterday (17 July), after years of wrangling and postponements.
Today UNESCO launches the International Jazz Day to be celebrated by millions worldwide every April 30. This year it and will begin with an all-star sunrise concert in New Orleans’ Congo Square, the birthplace of jazz and culminate with a sunset concert at the United Nations. Music stars such as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terence Blanchard, Ellis Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Kermit Ruffins will join Herbie Hancock, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. This post is dedicated to Hancock and African jazz musicians like Foday Musa Suso.
NAIROBI – An increasing number of African countries are beginning to step away from aid dependency, as the domestic private sector becomes the engine of growth across much of Africa.
TRIPOLI – “A crossroads of history, continents and ancient empires; a place where history comes alive through the extraordinary monuments on its shores”, reads a well- known tourist guidebook about Libya. It’s all still there, but the tourists aren’t there to see it.
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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