Category Archives: Africans

Photos | South Africa buries Mandela

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Live Streaming: Nelson Mandela State Funeral

Hat tip: Yahtc Qunu, South Africa (CNN) — A funeral cortege carrying Nelson Mandela’s body arrived Saturday in his ancestral village of Qunu, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, where he’ll be buried Sunday amid the lush green hills of … Continue reading

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Photos | Nelson Mandela lies in state as South Africa says goodbye

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Photos | Nelson Mandela Memorial Service

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Nelson Mandela – Dead at the Age of 95

Nelson Mandela – a worldwide hero Thank you, Madiba Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s rights activist, dies Source: The Associated Press Katharine Lackey, USA TODAY William M. Welch, USA TODAY 4:54 p.m. EST December 5, 2013 Nelson Mandela, whose successful struggle … Continue reading

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Saturday Open Thread | African Music & Dance

Botswana is an African country made up of a number of ethnic groups, although the Batswana are the majority of the population. Music is a large part of Botswana culture, and includes popular and folk forms. Botswana church choirs are … Continue reading

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Friday Open Thread | African Music & Dance

African popular music, like African traditional music, is vast and varied. Most contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with western popular music. Many genres of popular music, including blues, jazz and rumba, derive to varying degrees from … Continue reading

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Thursday Open Thread | African Music & Dance

Historically, several factors have influenced the tribal music of Africa. The music has been influenced by language, the environment, a variety of cultures, politics, and population movement, all of which are intermingled. Each African tribe evolved in a different area … Continue reading

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Tuesday Open Thread | African Music & Dance

The different regions and nations of Africa have distinct musical traditions, given the vastness of the continent. The music of North Africa for the most part has a distinct history from sub-Saharan African music traditions.[1] The music and dance of … Continue reading

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Monday Open Thread | African Music & Dance

The African continent is the second largest continent in the world, and  its people constitute a 10th of the world’s population with about one  thousand indigenous languages spoken throughout the continent (Stone, 1998,    p.2). In this context, it is important that a … Continue reading

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