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Senegal's capital was unusually subdued for a Saturday night in late February. In Dakar's popular Sicap Baobab district, the normally packed Toucan restaurant was empty and quiet, save for the voice of local pop star Cheikh Lô coming from speakers above the bar. In 1996 Lô hit international fame with Né La Thiass (Gone in a Flash), which warned about sudden changes of destiny. With Senegal emerging from a tumultuous election, the most keenly contested in its history, that lyric is timely again, echoing sentiment about the country's tippy democratic traditions and life under...
...vaccines,” Wirth said in a phone interview from Senegal, where she is running a workshop on her study’s results. Wirth’s study—conducted in conjunction with researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well as the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal—discovered almost 47,000 differences among the genes of the parasite in Africa, Asia, and South America. This genetic variation gives Plasmodium falciparum the ability to overcome vaccines and other treatments for malaria, allowing the disease to continue spreading. “It?...
HONORABLE MENTIONS: The Nortec Collective (Mexico) Cheikh Lo's band (Senegal) Cornershop (Britain...
...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 best chance in years to hear some of the most interesting and innovative African pop around...
Hence, argued the founding father of Afrocentrist history, the late Senegalese writer Cheikh Anta Diop, whatever is Egyptian is African, part of the lost black achievement; Imhotep, the genius who invented the pyramid as a monumental form in the 3rd millennium B.C., was black, and so were Euclid and Cleopatra in Alexandria 28 dynasties later. Blacks in Egypt invented hieroglyphics, and monumental stone sculpture, and the pillared temple, and the cult of the Pharaonic sun king. The habit of European and American historians of treating the ancient Egyptians as other than black is a racist plot to conceal the achievements...