gambia

Gambia

El maestro siempre

Maky Madiba Sylla is a militant filmmaker excavating iconic Africans whose legacies he believes need to be known widely—like the singer Laba Sosseh.

British Rapper Nate’s ‘Africa’

British rapper Nate sampling Hugh Masekela’s Stimela in his ‘Africa’ (for which he gets some help from Cyclonious, Dark Matter and Jalex). The video seems to have been recorded in a Gambian coastal town but I’m not quite sure which one. Bakau maybe?

The new sheriff

About a week ago, the International Criminal Court announced that Fatou Bensouda would succeed Luis Moreno Ocampo as Chief Prosecutor. This could be big news, but you wouldn’t know it from The New York Times, who barely reported the announcement. Fatou Bensouda is from Gambia. And she means business. Some people think she may be exactly what […]

Music Break

Real World Records has just released (this past Monday) the new album “In Trance” by JuJu, a collaboration album between Brit Justin Adams and Gambian Juldeh Camara. This is the song “Nightwalk. Thoughts?