BBC Africa
South African football captain Aaron Mokoena
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- South African football captain Aaron Mokoena
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- 14 years ago
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- Aaron Mokoena is the captain of the Fifa World Cup 2010 host nation side, Bafana Bafana.
There's been a lot of speculation about whether South Africa will make it through to the knock-out stages of the World Cup despite it being on their home soil.
The hosts play Mexico, Uruguay and France in Group A.
When Aaron visited our studios in Bush House, BBC Fast Track's Peter Okwoche asked him about what it means for Africa to host this major tournament and how he rates his team's chances.
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- Amira Kheir - Kullu Wahid
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- The Network Africa video sessions continue with this stunning performance from London-based Sudanese-Italian singer, Amira Kheir at our Bush House studios.
She writes and performs in Arabic seeking to reinterpret traditional Sudanese music with the more contemporary musical influences in her life.
Accompanied by Anna Wright on kora, this is Kullu Wahid.
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- Amira Kheir - Mashena
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- 14 years ago
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- The Network Africa video sessions continue with this stunning performance from London-based Sudanese-Italian singer, Amira Kheir at our Bush House studios.
She writes and performs in Arabic seeking to reinterpret traditional Sudanese music with the more contemporary musical influences in her life.
Accompanied by Iain McLeod on guitar and Anna Wright on kora, she performs the beautiful Mashena, meaning 'On our way'.
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- Cheick Tidiane Seck and friends - Nebe N'makoun.
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- 14 years ago
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- We met Cheick Tidiane on the festival charter flight from Bamako to Timbuktu.
A towering figure on the Malian music scene; keyboardist, composer, and performer and arranger of popular and traditional Malian music. He is a prolific and experienced traditional musician with many international musical collaborations under his belt.
He arrived at the festival accompanied by a clutch of home-grown, African and international musical talents to perform at the grande finale of the festival on Saturday night with The Cheick Tidiane Seck jam session.
The small BBC team visited the guest house where he and the musicians were staying in order to record an interview he had agreed to do with BBC Network Africa in London.
As we tried to get a link with London, he happily chatted away on his mobile phone to his friend and former collaborator, Salif Keita - Cheick Tidiane knows eveyone who's anyone here.
With the interview compl...
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- Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba in Timbuktu
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Bassekou Kouyate and his band Ngoni Ba made one of the best received African albums of 2009. "I Speak Fula", released in September followed the hugely successful 2007 Segu Blue album.
Through his music, Bassekou and his band have breathed new life into Ngoni playing.
The traditional string instrument made of wood or calabash with animal skin stretched across it was always played sitting down on stage.
Bassekou and his band changed that, strapping the Ngonis over their shoulders like guitars and bringing the instruments to the front of the stage.
Bassekou and Ngoni Ba headlined on Friday night at the Festival of the Desert.
We made contact with him on Saturday and he invited us to come to where he and his band were staying in Timbuktu to film an unplugged performance in the more traditional style.
Again, we found ourselves racing the setting sun, trying to get the performance recorded before the li...
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- Footage from the Festival of the Desert 2010
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- 14 years ago
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- music - Welcome to Mali by Amadou and Mariam
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- Tuareg collective at the Festival of the Desert 2010
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- 14 years ago
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- On Saturday morning, a group of young Tuareg men, wrapped in turbans against the strengthening sun, sat in the sand in front of their community of tents jamming together. There were guitars, drums, rapping, clapping and harmonies, the sound attracting a participating audience of friends and fellow musicians.
It epitomised the spirit of the festival, the coming together of people for music, collaboration and friendship.
The young men were musicians from Kidal, a town in the north of Mali which is also home to Tinariwen, the countrys most successful Tuareg band.
Playing together that day were members of three bands from the town; Amanar, Terkafte and Taliwen.
It was too windy for an outside performance and so they were persuaded to crawl into one of their own small tents along with cameras and recording equipment to perform a track for the Timbuktu video sessions collection.
This is - from Terakafte: Salou on guit...
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- Nneka on Network Africa
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- In a revealing interview Nigerian song-writer, Nneka tells Bola Mosuro how winning the UK's Mobo award has raised her profile in her homeland and further afield.
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- Romuald Hazoumé
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- Jerry-cans, plastic, wax cloth and other found objects all feature in "Made In Porto-Novo", the latest London show by Benin artist, Romuald Hazoumé.
The exhibition at the October Gallery in Central London tells of the precarious existence of Porto Novo's small time petrol importers whose livelihoods rely on bringing huge jerry-cans of fuel over the Nigerian border.
Hazoumé's variety of art forms combines the old with the new, the traditional with the modern and his unique voice pulls inspiration from his own Yoruba tradition. Network Africa's Bola Mosuro met him on his opening night.
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- Oliver Mtukudzi - Kupokana
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- 15 years ago
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- Oliver Mutukudzi with a song called Kupokana - a warning to be careful about the words that come out of your mouth.
As the BBC's Connected Africa Day focuses on Africa's new broadband connectivity, Network Africa sessions step in to provide you with the opportunity to really test the new technology by watching the great Zimbabwean singer and guitarist, Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi performing two tracks live in our Bush House studios.
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- Oliver Mtukudzi - Neria
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- 15 years ago
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- As the BBC's Connected Africa Day focuses on Africa's new broadband connectivity, Network Africa sessions step in to provide you with the opportunity to really test the new technology by watching the great Zimbabwean singer and guitarist, Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi performing two tracks live in our Bush House studios.
This classic track, Neria is about the strength of women and how they should take their place and not feel inferior to men.
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- Keziah Jones - Kpafuca
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- 15 years ago
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- Network Africa's video sessions continue with a performance from Nigerian musician Keziah Jones, the inventor and master of Blu-funk.
Influenced by Fela Kuti and Jimi Hendrix, Keziah shuttles back and forth between West Africa, Europe and the US, singing, playing guitar and absorbing new musical styles as he goes.
He came to Bush House to perform a session for Network Africa.
Kpafuca appears on his 2003 album, Black Orpheus.
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- Keziah Jones - Lagos vs New York
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- 15 years ago
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- Inflenced by Fela Kuti and Jimi Hendrix, Nigerian-born and New York based 'Blu-funk' musician, Keziah Jones performed a Network Africa session in studio S6 at Bush house.
"Lagos vs New York" is from his five track Nigerian Funk EP which comes in advance of the release of his fifth album, Nigerian Wood, due out in the autumn.
Described as "an album of pride and love" Keziah's new material seeks to represent Nigeria in a more contemporary cultural context with this track drawing parallels between his two favourite cities.
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- Nii Ayikwei Parkes talks to Bola Mosuro on BBC Network Africa
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- 15 years ago
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- As part of our Network Africa video series, writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes came into the studio to discuss his new crime novel, Tail of the Blue Bird.
Set in Ghana, the action takes place between the capital Accra and a small rural village, Sonokrom.
The narrative highlights the divergence of the two worlds with characters from the city having to meet villagers on their own terms if they are to solve the murder case.
Nii's poems featured on Network Africa a couple of years ago and Bola Mosuro was more than happy to chat to him once more about his work, this time in the long form.
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- Vieux Farka Touré - Souba Souba
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- Vieux, Souleymane Kane (Calabash) and Aly Magassa (guitar) in session at Bush House for BBC Network Africa.
Great guitar work from the main man here and the calabash and rhythm guitar accompaniment combine to create this distinctive sound of modern Africa.
Vieux Farka Touré was also interviewd by Bola Mosuro about his new album Fondo. You can listen at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/2009/05/090528_vft_av.shtml
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- Vieux Farka Touré - Walé
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- 15 years ago
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- Vieux, Souleymane Kane (Calabash) and Aly Magassa (guitar) in session at Bush House for BBC Network Africa.
This is Vieux's own arrangement of a traditional Malian song.
The recording took much longer than we anticipated but the band took it in extremely good humour and were patient and amused by our tragic attempts at French!
Vieux Farka Touré was also interviewd by Bola Mosuro about his new album Fondo. You can listen at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/2009/05/090528_vft_av.shtml
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- Petina Gappah with Bola Mosuro on Network Africa
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- 15 years ago
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- New author Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer based in Geneva; she has just published a collection of 13 short stories.
Petina visited us here at Bush House and Bola Mosuro asked if the title story 'An Elegy for Easterly' - in which a community struggles to survive evictions whilst maintaining alliances, petty grievances and even prejudices - was based on a true story or if she just imagined the painful experiences people were going through.
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- Daby Touré and Skip MacDonald on Network Africa
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- Their meeting was "planned a long time ago - we just didn't know it", says Skip McDonald, collaborator and musical soul mate to Mauritania-born, Daby Touré.
The planning may have been done on a higher plain, possibly by the musical gods, but the connection that the two men feel with each other through their music is real.
McDonald, a blues artist originally from Dayton, Ohio in the US, and Touré initially came across each other while working on separate projects at the Real World record company's studios.
The mutual interest and "spiritual vibrations" they felt in each other's music made for repeated jam sessions which eventually gave rise to the production of 'Call My Name', their six track album.
The two artists visited Bush House to perform a couple of tracks and chat with BBC Network Africa's Bola Mosuro.
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- Daby Touré and Skip MacDonald - Sinners
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- Daby Touré and Skip MacDonald perform Sinners from their album, 'Call My Name'. This was recorded in March 2009 at Bush House in London for BBC Network Africa,