"La Patrie ou la mort; nous vaincrons" in Bamanakan/Dyula

Imagine you’re building a new nation: your people have just thrown off colonial chains. But behind the scenes, a foreign agency is picking your leaders, funding rival factions, flooding your society with misinformation, investing in businessmen who owe their loyalty to another capital half a globe away. This is not fiction. This is White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams.When we talk about Africa’s decolonization, we usually imagine flags being raised, anthems echoing across the sky, and leaders proclaiming independence. But behind these images of triumph, another story was unfolding — silent, methodical, and invisible. A story of spies and sabotage.Of manipulation and betrayal. A story where the dream of freedom was quietly undermined by a foreign power: the United States of America.In her groundbreaking book White Malice, British historian Susan Williams exposes the secret operations of the CIA in Africa — operations that aimed not just to influence, but to control the newly independent nations of the continent.

Step into the roots of Jamaican sound system culture with Jah Wise, the legendary selector of Tippatone HiFi — one of the most powerful sounds of the 1970s.

In this Artiste Reasoning, Papa Michigan sits with Jah Wise to explore: 🎧 How Tippatone rose to fame
🔥 The unforgettable clashes and rival sounds
🎚️ The art of selecting and moving the crowd
🎙️ Dubplates from King Tubby’s, Channel One & Studio One
💿 Vinyl vs digital — how the sound has evolved
🌍 The message in reggae music and advice for new selectors

This reasoning dives deep into the true foundation of sound system culture — told by one of its original masters.

🎙️ Hosted by: Papa Michigan
📺 Series: Artiste Reasoning
📧 Contact: michiganpapa830@gmail.com
📱 Instagram: @papa_michigan

⁣Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Kambon at Phone/Laptop Plant in Burkina Faso

OLATUNJI - "SHE TEMPO" (Official Visualizer)

Produced by Shot Master J

Following the heartfelt patriotism of his first release for the season, "TLY (Trinidad Loves You)", Olatunji Yearwood returns with his second offering "She Tempo", a vibrant, soulful ode to the heartbeat of his career: soca music.
Inspired by the smooth charm of the late Baron, "She Tempo" fuses vintage calypso sweetness with modern Carnival power.
Olatunji personifies soca as a woman, seductive, playful, and powerful taking listeners on a rhythmic love affair full of passion and truth.
With lines like "She hit me front, I hit she back and we whining low", Olatunji captures the essence of the dance floor and the deeper
connection between an artist and his art form.
The song reflects the highs and lows of his journey in the soca industry, celebrating resilience, creativity, and devotion to the culture that raised him.

⁣Update on the current state of the ongoing Mampong Palace Construction

⁣Tamu Mazama - Bakoko (Official Audio)

For the second consecutive year, NPR teamed up with globalFEST in January 2021 for a thrilling online music festival we call Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: three nights, nine bands, and a world of musical traditions hosted by African pop star Angélique Kidjo. Now, we're posting all the sets from our festival as individual Tiny Desk (home) concerts.Bob Boilen | January 28, 2022Born from the rich musical and historical heritage of San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia (the first free Black town in the Americas), Kombilesa Mí fuses the traditional sounds of the community with urban pop. The band's members experiment with the instruments created by their ancestors (and introduced to them when they were young) by layering them between new sounds.Over traditional percussion, metal handmade drums of their own design, and marímbula, Kombilesa Mí rhymes and raps in Spanish and the traditional Palenquero language, a fusion of African Bantu, Portuguese, French and English. During the performance, you'll hear them call their music "RFP," which means Rap Folklórico Palenquero, a combo of cumbia, son de negro, mapalé and son palenquero. --The globalFEST staffSET LIST"I Tando Pa Palenge""I A Piyá Bó""Kumo Kusa Tá""Los Peinados""Asina Gue""Ma Nduse""Ata Uto Begá"MUSICIANSAndris Padilla Julio: vocalsKeila Regina Miranda Pérez (KR MP): vocalsAlí Fernando Navarro (MCPM): vocals, tambor alegreMartín Elias Maza: tambor llamadorKendri Cassiani: tamborasOrlys Reyes: marímbulaEdwin Valdes: maracasCREDITSProduction: Guillermo CamachoAudio: Fernando ManzurVideo: Guillermo CamachoCamera: Royman Reales MartinezSpecial thanks: Real Films Cartagena, Viviana Benitez, novaproduccionesTiny Desk Meets globalFESTTiny Desk TeamProducer: Bob BoilenVideo Producer: Maia SternAudio Mixing: Josh RogosinTiny Production Team: Bobby Carter, Kara Frame, Joshua Bryant, Sofie Hernandez-SimeonidisExecutive Producer: Keith JenkinsSenior VP, Programming: Anya GrundmannglobalFEST Artistic TeamCo-Directors: Shanta Thake, Isabel Soffer, Bill Bragin2022 Curators: Shanta Thake, Isabel Soffer, Bill Bragin, Gabrielle DavenportglobalFEST Production TeamEvent Producer: Ian ThakeProducer: THE OFFICE performing arts + film*Video Producer: Karim TabbaaSpecial ThanksThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, JanArtsNYC, Valerie French (social media), Yuri Kwon of Pitch Perfect PR (publicity), Tamizdat (legal services) and Duane Morris (legal services)*THE OFFICE performing arts + film consists of Rachel Chanoff, Laurie Cearley, Olli Chanoff, Erica Zielinski, Nadine Goellner, Lynn Koek, Noah Bashevkin, Catherine DeGennaro, Gabrielle Davenport, Chloe Golding, Kyla Gardner, Tess Peppis, Zion Jackson, Scout Eisenberg and Jose Alvarado