Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schneider, who is white, says there was "prettymuch total isolation. There were very fewAfrican-Americans who were highly integrated interms of their daily activity. To a very largeextent, the African-Americans associated, partiedand dined together...
...works are both a South African and Egyptian programs, Lesser says...
...Indonesia will change in ways that were impossible under Suharto's centralized control. The press has thrown off self-censorship, and the next step could be the legitimization of multiparty politics to accommodate the newfound sense of "people power." John Sidel, a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, predicts, "You will see a great diversity in government, and all these different groups will be appealing to the people." The monopolies, nontariff barriers and nepotism that distorted the market process, says Emil Salim, a former Cabinet minister, can be countered by "empowering institutions outside the government...
...performing in the U.S. for the first time, as part of Africa Fete, a traveling festival of African music and culture that will visit 20 North American cities starting in early June. Joining her will be several other African singing stars, most of them little known in America, including Salif Keita (a huge star in his native Mali), Papa Wemba (from the Democratic Republic of Congo) and newcomer Cheikh Lo (of Senegal). Their sounds can be heard on Africa Fete '98, a companion album just released by Island Records. Taken together, the tour and the album offer American audiences their...
Africa Fete began as the dream of Mamadou Konte, an African immigrant living in Paris. He wanted to bring a little of Africa to Europe to show Parisians what that continent's culture was all about. So in 1978 he founded Africa Fete, a weeklong series of concerts in Paris that still draw tens of thousands of people each year. In 1993, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell (who helped bring reggae superstar Bob Marley to a global audience) licensed the name Africa Fete and started a similar show in America. He was forced to halt it, however, after three years...