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Independence Comes to THE MUSIC WAS BRIGHT in the dark of an April night in 1961 when Sierra Leone joined the growing ranks of newly independent nations... READ MORE The Music of Freetown DOWN AT THE FOOT of Macfoy Lane near the heart of the city, voracious tropical undergrowth reclaims crumbling foundations of old British military barracks, while a few yards away the waters of Whiteman’s Bay lap at the rocky shore. The beat of a loping bass and nyabinghi drums drifts from an unseen tape player in harmony with a warm onshore breeze... Musicmakers
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Music Business RECORDING HOUSES that flourished in many African countries during the sixties and seventies are in a state of decline or have disappeared. Many talented musicians have left the profession or moved abroad...READ MORE ONE OF THE LEADERS in promoting African music in the U.S. is Ibrahim Bah. At his African Music Gallery in Washington, D.C., Bah imports, retails, and distributes wholesale the latest records...READ MORE AFRICAN MUSIC EXPLOSION, proclaimed the generic record jackets of the African Record Center in the early 1970s, but the pronouncement proved to be premature... |
Krio Intellectual Robert Wellesley Cole |
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