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...efforts to fix the country's chaotic finances and clean up corruption. But many Nigerians would also love to see tribute paid to people like Gani Fawehinmi, Nigeria's most renowned human-rights lawyer and campaigner. Or the late Afro-beat band leader, saxophonist and political activist Fela Kuti, who sang about the ills of the government and the struggles of poor workers. Tomiwa Kukoyi Lagos I'm O.K., You're an Idiot James Poniewozik's essay "The Age of iPod Politics," about Americans' ability to fashion their own insular world, was right on target [Oct. 11]. With the smorgasbord...
...maybe we place less value on anonymous deaths. If we can put a face and name to someone, we feel compassion and the urge to help. But I’ve got names: Richard Mubweka, Mildred Bwire Auma, Hanneac Mkwapada and Fela Kuti, all victims of an early death from AIDS, all as valuable to their families as Mamoru Konno. Surely, their families would have paid $2 million to save them, if they had been able to afford...
...Mapfumo and his band are now permanently based in the U.S., although only three members of the band were able to perform with him. Stripped of his rich accompaniment, Mapfumo’s rich, expressive voice came across almost plaintively, particularly when he sang, “Makuona here kuti mukomana akatorwa?” (“Did you see that our brother was taken?”) Not all the songs were so mournful: Mapfumo introduced one song about the depredations of alcohol, and how drinking too much had once made him hit his mother...
...Sakamoto's 1963 single Sukiyaki, an American chart topper by way of Japan. (For Bookman, even singing in Creole--which has periodically been outlawed in Haiti--is a political act.) Protest singers in Africa and the Caribbean have long preached a musical and lyrical Pan-Africanism, from Kuti's mondo-Afro beats back to Peter Tosh's 1977 rallying cry: "As long as you're a black man, you're an African...
...World Beat will explore topics related to this issue, as will CNN's Showbiz on the Road. Also, AOL members can enjoy special features related to our stories. Meanwhile, all of us who worked on this issue are acquiring the CDs of our favorite discoveries, from Nigeria's Femi Kuti to the Icelandic band Sigur Ros. Online, on TV and in our pages, we're sure you'll make some exciting discoveries of your...