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African Change-Makers: Godfrey Nzamujo - Songhai Centre
Pro. Houyeleet Thiam talks with another fellow Mauritanian who is fighting the fight from afar. [2018]
While all deserts, including the Sahara, increase in size during the dry season and decrease during the wet season, human-caused climate change in conjunction with natural climate cycles, are causing the Sahara desert to grow more and shrink less. Since 1920, the Sahara has grown beyond its initial boundaries and gobbled up more space, growing by nearly 10 percent. The desert is advancing south into more tropical terrain, turning green vegetation dry and soil once used for farming into the barren ground. Despite the Global North being the most significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, it is people like those living in the Sahel who are paying the price.
Ten African countries are moving ahead with an ambitious pan-African effort to protect arable land from the encroaching Sahara —by planting trees from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east. Dubbed The Great Green Wall, it is an African-led movement with an ambition to grow an 8,000km NEWEST WONDER OF THE WORLD across the entire width of Africa, designed to trap the sands of the Sahara, halt the advance of the desert and restore 100 million hectares of land. It was initially intended to be just a line of trees, stretching east to west, to help push back the Sahara’s expansion down south.
Haiti Reforestation Partnership is celebrating 30 years of reforestation success.
To learn more, please visit www.haitireforest.org
Saturday, July 23rd 1960.
Footage of Patrice Lumumba, the Prime Minister of Congo-Kinshasa, arriving in London on a Saturday evening while en route to New York.
He was met on arrival by the British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, John Profumo. He had a private talk with Profumo and other British officials.
Lumumba was interviewed in French by ITN correspondent John Connell.
Source: Getty Images.
Mandela’s inaugural speech was centred on the people of South Africa and the appreciation of the world’s commitment to fight the apartheid regime.
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Morning Meditation
Blacknotes Libation: In Praise of Oshun
In 2000, I was contracted by Wesley Snipes and St Clair Bourne to do 3D animation for a documentary on Yosef Ben-Jochannan aka Dr. Ben. Wesley was doing a series of Black History documentaries, the first being A Great and Mighty Walk: John Henrik Clarke. The doc on Dr Ben was never finished when the Blade Series took off. There was some controversy about the film I was never sure about. History fell to commerce. Wesley, treated folks right and just got caught up in a great success. Maybe it will be finished one day. <br />
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The 3D animation was based on a survey of the ruins of Karnak that resides at the Oriental Institute in Chicago. This is what it would have looked like based on the 8 weeks of research I did. Then 6 weeks of production with Max McMullen in London working remotely between Chicago and there most of the time. <br />
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I returned to Chicago permanently and Max went on to be animation supervisor for Dave McKean's Mirrormask.
This video is about the Wodaabe group of the Fulani ethnic group. The Wodaabe live in the Following countries: Niger mainly, Nigeria, Chad, parts of Mali? parts of Sudan? They are also a part of the Mbororos who are many in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Central Afr. Republic, Chad
Zaouli is a popular music and dance practised by the Guro communities of the Bouaflé and Zuénoula departments of Côte d’Ivoire. A homage to feminine beauty, Zaouli is inspired by two masks: the Blou and the Djela. Its other name, Djela lou Zaouli means Zaouli, the daughter of Djela. In a single event, the practice brings together sculpture (the mask), weaving (the costume), music (the band and song) and dance. There are seven types of Zaouli masks, each translating a specific legend. The bearers and practitioners include sculptors, craftspeople, instrumentalists, singers, dancers and the notables (the guarantors of the community’s customs and traditions). Zaouli plays an educational, playful and aesthetic role, contributes to environmental preservation, conveys the cultural identity of its bearers and promotes integration and social cohesion. Transmission occurs during musical performances and learning sessions, when amateurs learn under the supervision of experienced practitioners. The viability of Zaouli is ensured through popular performances organized two or three times a week by the communities. The traditional chiefdom, the guarantor of traditions, also plays a key role in the transmission process and inter-village dance competitions and festivals offer further opportunities for revitalization.
https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/z....aouli-popular-music-