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  • Brenda Fassie (3 November 1964 – 9 May 2004), was a South African pop singer. She is known for her “outrageousness” and widely considered a voice for disenfranchised blacks during apartheid. She was affectionately known as the...

    Brenda Fassie

    Brenda Fassie (3 November 1964 – 9 May 2004), was a South African pop singer. She is known for her “outrageousness” and widely considered a voice for disenfranchised blacks during apartheid. She was affectionately known as the…

  • Musician, Model & Actress Heyden Adama Bangura from Sierra Leone in West Africa, is one of the hottest acts in the Sierra Leone music and entertainment scene, as well as...

    Heyden Adama Bangura

    Musician, Model & Actress Heyden Adama Bangura from Sierra Leone in West Africa, is one of the hottest acts in the Sierra Leone music and entertainment scene, as well as…

  • Formed in West African refugee camps, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have risen like a phoenix from the ashes of destruction to create this infectious and celebratory new record. Produced by...

    Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

    Formed in West African refugee camps, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have risen like a phoenix from the ashes of destruction to create this infectious and celebratory new record. Produced by…

  • Atongo Zimba is a musician and griot from Ghana. His tours in Europe, South America and Africa include a benefit for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, at the Alliance Française in...

    Atongo Zimba

    Atongo Zimba is a musician and griot from Ghana. His tours in Europe, South America and Africa include a benefit for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, at the Alliance Française in…

  • Vickie Remoe is a twenty something socialist, fashionista, concerned global citizen, Know-It-All, Africanist, self proclaimed “Biggest Swit Mot Na Salone”. Vickie is one of first “cool kids” to move back...

    Vickie Remoe

    Vickie Remoe is a twenty something socialist, fashionista, concerned global citizen, Know-It-All, Africanist, self proclaimed “Biggest Swit Mot Na Salone”. Vickie is one of first “cool kids” to move back…

  • This is an up and coming band from the West African State of Sierra Leone…See a video

    C-Base from Sierra Leone

    This is an up and coming band from the West African State of Sierra Leone…See a video

  • Image via Wikipedia Sotigui Kouyaté (July 19, 1936, Mali – April 17, 2010, Paris) was one of the first Burkinabé actors. He was the father of film director Dani Kouyaté...

    Sotigui Kouyate

    Image via Wikipedia Sotigui Kouyaté (July 19, 1936, Mali – April 17, 2010, Paris) was one of the first Burkinabé actors. He was the father of film director Dani Kouyaté…

  • Safi Faye (b. November 22, 1943) is a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film. She has directed...

    Safi Faye

    Safi Faye (b. November 22, 1943) is a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film. She has directed…

  • Daba Modibo Keïta (born 5 April 1981) is an Malian Taekwondo athlete. Keïta has competed in international competitions since 1996, and in 2007 became the Heavyweight (+84 kg) division 2007...

    Daba Modibo Keïta

    Daba Modibo Keïta (born 5 April 1981) is an Malian Taekwondo athlete. Keïta has competed in international competitions since 1996, and in 2007 became the Heavyweight (+84 kg) division 2007…

  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal style of isicathamiya and mbube. They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of...

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal style of isicathamiya and mbube. They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of…

  • Juma Nature a.k.a Sir Nature (born Juma Kassim Ally, in 1980) is a Tanzanian hip hop artist and a singer. He is the founder and member of a Temeke group...

    Juma Nature

    Juma Nature a.k.a Sir Nature (born Juma Kassim Ally, in 1980) is a Tanzanian hip hop artist and a singer. He is the founder and member of a Temeke group…

  • African art constitutes one of the most diverse legacies on earth. Though many casual observers tend to generalize “traditional” African art, the continent is full of peoples, societies, and civilizations,...

    African Art

    African art constitutes one of the most diverse legacies on earth. Though many casual observers tend to generalize “traditional” African art, the continent is full of peoples, societies, and civilizations,…