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African Music Forum (AMF)

Amadou Balaké – Super Bar Konon Mousso

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Although the video says it was recorded in Lagos in 1978, the reality, as Discogs states and as many musicians and bands did at that time, is that Amadou Balaké (or Ballaké) from Burkina Faso gathered musicians in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. This track is also available on “The Original Sound of Burkina Faso” compilation. …

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abolitionmedia

ELN: A Look Towards Africa

In Africa, tectonic movements of liberation and decolonization are again being felt. In the African Sahel, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad and Senegal have expelled France permanently. On the continent, the pan–Africanist agenda of the 1960s is being revived. In November 2024, the historic “Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel” was held in Niger, organized by the Pan African Secretariat (PAT) and the Organization of the Peoples of West Africa (WAPO), under the slogan: “For anti–imperialist unity, peace and friendship among peoples.” PAT and WAPO are two great engines driving the pan–African liberation project. It is placed on the agenda in the revolutionary and national liberation movements of the world, calling us to a dialogue and coordination with this African libertarian reality. Malcolm X, on his trip to Africa (1964) having renounced the Nation of Islam, which preached black nationalism, discovered affinities and identities with revolutionary leaders, some of whom were not black, such as Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. By finding deeper identities with African revolutionary leaders, and not just with Black Africa, he further sharpened contradictions with the Nation of Islam leadership, especially Elijah Muhammed. Then Malcolm X would profess his identity and admiration for revolutionary leaders of Our America, such as Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara, questioning whether the strategic thing was “being black” or “being revolutionary.” This dilemma persists today for the Afro–Colombian movement, a powerful force for emancipation and transformation in Colombia, which has managed to significantly influence the nation’s political agenda. Certainly, the project of emancipation in America is inconceivable and becomes unviable without black and indigenous liberation. That is why we should turn our gaze to Africa. However, on France’s two visits to Africa, he failed to engage in dialogue with the ongoing African liberation organizations and processes. In Ghana he met with the president who openly promotes the conspiracy against the countries of the African Sahel. He also appeared at a press conference with an Ashanti chieftain, notorious in Ghana for his corruption and starring in politics. Socialist revolutionaries in Ghana watched with sadness that a black leader from Latin America, from a left–wing party, showed no affinity with the African left. Black identity and the struggle against structural racism is and has been a key point in the unity building of the African American diaspora. It has been a 500-year struggle, fraught with unimaginable sacrifice and suffering. Black identity against the systemic racism of the white and mixed world is legitimate and necessary. The difficulty lies in the fact that black identity is not the epicenter of the liberation project in Africa, but the decolonization, the confrontation with imperialism and the revolutionary transformation of its societies.Africa is not a monolithic continent; there are pro–imperialists and anti–imperialists, as well as left and right; also exploitative bourgeois and exploited workers. These factors are decisive in the African liberation struggle. At COP 16, held in November 2024 in Cali, there was a clear misunderstanding between the Afro–Colombian movement and the delegates from African countries, precisely for that reason: black identity is not decisive in the African struggle, as it is taken in the struggles of our America. Here emerges the debate and tensions that have existed between identity struggles and revolutionary struggles, where the latter focus on class identity, between exploited versus exploiter. The unity of class and the unity of identity need not quarrel, for there are multiple points of encounter. The meeting of the two in a strategic project of emancipation is vital to achieve the revolutionary transformation we desire. The black and the Indian in the Petro government are interesting topics for a current debate. Comandante Antonio García Source: ELN Voces

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African Music Forum (AMF)

Amadou Balaké – Taximan (n’est pas gentil)

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The Golden Voice from Burkina Faso in a track that has become a “classic”: Taximan (n’est pas gentil).

Like the previous post (Maitre Gazonga), most of this music was recorded in Abidjan during the 80s, where so many musicians from various countries met and worked together, creating a giant & rich melting pot of music […]

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"Daytime temperatures are forecast to exceed 40°C (104°F) in this highly climate-vulnerable region of Africa.

Communities across #BurkinaFaso and southern and eastern #Mali may experience a hazardous combination of extreme heat and poor air quality caused by Saharan dust."

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www.climatecentral.orgHuman-caused climate change fuels extreme heat in Africa’s Sahel region: Burkina Faso and Mali | Climate CentralUnusually hot temperatures forecast over the next four days (March 4-8) in Burkina Faso and parts of Mali in Africa’s Sahel region, a highly climate-vulnerable part of the world, are at least five times more likely due to human-caused climate change.
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EUROPEAN POWERS FIGHTING IT OUT IN DRC

In this 1964 clip, we see Pan-Africanist Malcolm X (1925-65) pushing back on CBS News reporters who, like mainstream media past and present, love to strip all incidents occurring in Africa and the Global South of their context, obscuring Western culpability.

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S’il y a une vidéo que l’armée française va détester, c’est celle-là! Allez, on déconstruit 3 autres mythes aujourd’hui! Dans cet extrait, les “58 soldats français morts au combat au Sahel”. À voir en intégralité

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Volta Jazz – Wêrê Wêrê Magne

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“Wêrê Wêrê Magne” by Volta Jazz can be found as part of “Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta“, released as a 3-disc, 37-song box set. This album was nominated at the 2018 Grammys for Best Historical Album and Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package. “From his studio in central Bobo-Dioulasso, photographer Sory Sanlé […] …

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Elon Musk, qui trouve que ByteDance, la propriétaire chinoise de TikTok, devrait ouvrir son capital en Chine à des américains, refuse d’ouvrir le capital de SpaceX à des sud-africains noirs en Afrique du Sud, comme l’exige la loi sur le black economic empowerment. Suprémaciste blanc, quand tu vois, tu connais

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