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- Annansi Clothing Co. “Redefines African Style” with new…
- Jay-Z, U2, Madonna Deliver Live 8 Highlights – News Story | Music,…
- Africa’s new dynasty
- Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Europe/Worl…
Annansi Clothing Co. “Redefines African Style” with new…
New Age Media Concepts – New Age Media Concepts (press release) – Jul 2, 2005
will present Redefining African Style, a showcase of emerging African musicians, July 9th at Lava Gina – World Music Lounge (116 Ave C between 7th & 8th Sts) in New York City. Hosted by MC Chosan (Sierra Leone) and featuring The Ambassadoz (Ghana), Sheba (Ethiopia), and the Artkitects, Redefining African Style is the first of a series of showcases which will create a platform for emerging African artists who are truly redefining African musical style for the masses. Born in Sierra Leone and raised in the UK, Chosan is someone whose talent and unique perspective has helped him build a strong fan base “under the radar”. Annansi Clothing Co. continues to push the boundaries of traditional African style by encouraging individual expression and definition particularly by those Africans who have traveled extensively or been raised overseas. Annansi Clothing Co…
com**Chosan was born in Sierra Leone, West Africa and moved to Canada and then to London where he first got involved with hip-hop culture. After a freestyle CD recorded in a friends bedroom won him an on-air performance at London’s KISS FM, Chosan went on to do numerous shows and warm up for artists such as Busta Rhymes, Jadakiss and Dead Prez. After becoming dissatisfied with the representation of Hip-Hop in the UK, Chosan moved to the Bronx New York. Tragedy struck when he was hit by a truck and spent two months in the hospital and one year in physical therapy. Chosan later recorded his debut "The Beautiful Side of Misery" vol.
Jay-Z, U2, Madonna Deliver Live 8 Highlights – News Story | Music,…
MTV.com – Jul 2, 2005
The crowd screamed, “Hova! Hova!” when Linkin Park took the stage, expecting their mash-up partner Jay-Z to join them. Once Jigga did make an entrance, it seemed like at least 100,000 in the crowd threw up the Roc-A-Fella triangle hand sign. Kanye West performed “Diamonds From Sierra Leone” backed by a string section that included eight female violin players wearing black dresses and painted-on black masks across their eyes. London @ Hyde Park:Coldplay teamed with shoeless ex-Verve singer Richard Ashcroft to perform his band’s signature hit, “Bittersweet Symphony,” and drew a massive response from the audience. Coldplay singer Chris Martin shouted to the rooftops and jumped around during the closing refrain of “In My Place. Geldof, all in white, jammed with Travis on a cover of the Boomtown Rats’ “I Don’t Like Mondays,” which features the fitting line “and the lesson today is how to die. A bleached-blond Brad Pitt introduced Annie Lennox and hammered home one of the day’s other repeated messages.
Africa’s new dynasty
Telegraph.co.uk – Jul 2, 2005
Elsewhere, by contrast, dynastic succession has tended to prolong ossification: take Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Kim Jong-il in North Korea. Togo’s post-colonial history has been marked by assassination, attempted coups, rigged elections, opposition boycotts and ethnic rivalry. It may not have fallen apart like Sierra Leone, Liberia or Ivory Coast, but the late general’s monopoly of power has hardly made for stability. Africa’s most durable tyrant, an ally of President Jacques Chirac, has gone. In 1998, when it looked as if he might lose to Gilchrist Olympio, son of the president assassinated in 1963, he suspended the vote count. Now, in dying, he has passed the sceptre to his son. The creation of a Gnassingbé dynasty merely heightens tensions that have plagued Togo for decades.
Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Europe/Worl…
Gulf Times – Jul 2, 2005
Parisians were urged to gather in the Trocadero Gardens to form a human chain holding a huge white band in a show of solidarity with the worldwide anti-poverty campaign. As one activist in Prague put it: âThe world will not be free as long as people die each day from poverty,â said Tomas Lebeda, an organiser for the group Glopolis. In Sierra Leone, the famous cotton tree planted by freed slaves when the African nation was founded will be draped in a white band followed by a street party in Freetown.