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From Cape Town to Kinshasa to Abidjan on the Ivory Coast, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, daughter of an African gospel singer, is Africa's undisputed disco queen. This program traces her career and details her meteoric rise to fame. Live performance footage highlights the influence of gospel music and the traditional African rhythms she weaves into her work.
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The music in this program is a detonating blend of soul, disco, and Mbaqanga-a blend of pop and traditional rhythms-from music legend Brenda Fassie, niece of Nelson Mandela. Fassie talks about her childhood days as a singer with the Tiny Tots-a street-corner group with whom she often did imitations of American folk singer Roberta Flack. Later music, which she describes as "bubble-gum," made her a star. But it was her song written and dedicated to...
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This ABC News program focuses on the good works being done by two remarkable AIDS crusaders who have taken the AIDS pandemic in Africa to heart: singer/songwriter Alicia Keyes and human rights maverick Stephen Lewis. Keyes' position as spokesperson for Keep a Child Alive, a nonprofit organization providing life-saving medicines directly to African children and families with HIV/AIDS, is showcased alongside the efforts of Lewis, U.N. Special Envoy...
6) 30 Under 30
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Meet three of Africa's biggest game-changers under the age of 30: a 19-year-old Kenya entrepreneur, a singer/songwriter in South Africa and a Ugandan visual artist.
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American folk singer Pete Seeger retells a South African folktale about a boy and his father who, after being banished from town for making mischief, are welcomed back when they find a way to make the dreaded giant, Abiyoyo, disappear. Accompanying CD includes two versions of Pete Seeger performing the "storysong."
9) Music Men
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South African artist White Zulu's passion for maskandi music; a modern dance hall star brought Jamaican vibes to Zimbabwe; a musician's chance to become a star in Nairobi.
10) Angels in Exile
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What does the onset of puberty and sexual awakening mean for a street child? Over 8 years we witness the world of two children growing up homeless on the streets of Durban. They live in the midst of a sophisticated society but they might as well be invisible. It's a world of violence, drugs, prostitution, and murder- while teenage love blossoms regardless.
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Spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles, this program recounts the remarkable saga of how a nursery rhyme sung by the Gullah people of present-day Georgia was confirmed to be of African origin. When 18th-century slavers sent human cargo from Sierra Leone to America's coastal South, they also sent a trove of cultural information that had been passed from Mende mothers to their daughters for generations-including a particular song that had...
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"Music tells the story of the charmed life of Matthew Kennedy. At four years old he played his first piano piece. At twelve he was the star of his own radio program in Macon, Georgia. That same year, he found himself sitting in the audience for a live concert given by the celebrated Russian pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff during his tour of the American South. Matthew's journey delivered him from the segregated South, sending him to New York City (where...
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In 1970, singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez relaesed his debut album to little fanfare in the US. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, he became a phenomenon. The film follows the story of two South African fans who set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation leads them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez....
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"From the authors of the New York Times bestselling book Rad American Women A-Z, comes a bold new collection of 40 biographical profiles, each accompanied by a striking illustrated portrait, showcasing extraordinary women from around the world. In Rad Women Worldwide, writer Kate Schatz and artist Miriam Klein Stahl tell fresh, engaging, and inspiring tales of perseverance and radical success by pairing well researched and riveting biographies with...
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In an extraordinary jam session between two very distinctive storytelling traditions, African American writer, griot and blues singer Arthur Flowers and Indian scroll painter Manu Chitrakar have created I See the Promised Land, a stunning biography of Martin Luther King Jr. This powerful graphic narrative tells King's story through the major events that occurred in the apartheid South during his lifetime. It includes descriptions of the Montgomery...