Baaba Maal’s New Album: Surfs Between Thematic Continuity and Stylistic Break

ARTS, STYLE & ENTERTAINMENT This is YOUR lifestyle gallery – of what is new and what is happening in the U.S. And the Black World, not excluding Africa. For this section if you have any news we should know about – let us know at: [email protected] Baaba Maal performs at the Barbican Centre on May 30, 2023, in London, England. Robin Little/Redferns via Getty Images. BY Cheick Sakho Released on March 31, 2023, “Being”, the new album by Senegalese artist Baaba Maal, has seven tracks that are all or almost all part of a thematic continuity. The topics covered – love, solidarity, loneliness, humility, immigration, the environment, etc. – are both universal and timeless. They fit with each era. My research focuses on orality, among others.

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Rwanda welcomes medical students fleeing Sudan war

AFRICA INC. – Rising economies, start-ups, and Black wealth, etc. A group of medical students from Sudan has been welcomed to Rwanda to continue their studies after a civil war erupted in mid-April. Their campus at the University of Medical Sciences and Technology was overrun and turned into a base by fighters in the capital, Khartoum, where paramilitary forces and the army are involved in a power struggle. The 160 undergraduates, who were eight months away from completing their course, have been offered space, along with their lecturers, at the University of Rwanda. The group, who are mainly made up of women, will also be practicing in local hospitals. One of the students, Dina Abdalrahim Obaid, told a function in the

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New Approach Needed As Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) on The Upswing in West Africa

AFRICA INC. – Rising economies, start-ups, and Black wealth, etc. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence of sickle cell disease. Wikimedia Common By Peter Adigwe Sickle cell disease refers to a group of inherited blood diseases whose symptoms are anemia and blockage of blood vessels. About 80% of sickle cell cases worldwide occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The lack of access to comprehensive health care in the region exacerbates the burden of disease. Nigeria has the largest population of people with this disease in the world. Reports indicate that about 25% of Nigerians carry the responsible gene and 2-3% of the population suffers from sickle cell disease. The mortality rate for children ranges from 50 to 80 per cent. Clinical presentations vary from one sickle cell patient to another. Some include leg

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Concerns of Kenyan Troops in Haiti Prompts More Questions Than Answers

AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Jorge Heine The kidnapping and subsequent release of U.S. nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her young daughter in Haiti in early August 2023 drew brief international attention to crime in the impoverished Caribbean nation. But the truth is that such kidnappings are commonplace for Haitians, and they rarely receive attention from outside the country itself. Indeed, Haiti has become a forgotten crisis to many international bodies and foreign governments. News that Kenya has offered to lead an international effort to bring order to the country only underscores the lack of action by other nations closer to Haiti. As someone who has written a book, “Fixing Haiti,” on the last concerted outside intervention – the United Nations’ stabilizing mission

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How The West Is Fast Losing The Public Relations War in Africa

AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. By Caleb Onyeabor/Special to The African Times/USA  One of the weapons of Imperialism in Africa, whether in the pre-colonization, colonization and post-colonization era is mind control. The external powers most often are in the business of dominance and exploitation for as long as it can control the minds and perception of the dominated. In the same vein, one of the strongest weapons of anti-imperialism is the undoing and dismantling of this control of the minds of the victims of imperialism. This was successfully deployed during the era of the struggle for decolonization. Although what was achieved had been tagged “flag independence” – political independence without economic independence – there has

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Journey Of An African Woman: “When You Take Your Master’s Degree Home To Your Only Living Grandfather

ARTS, STYLE & ENTERTAINMENT This is YOUR lifestyle gallery – of what is new and what is happening in the U.S. And the Black World, not excluding Africa. For this section if you have any news we should know about – let us know at: [email protected] Interview By Caleb Onyeabor/Exclusive to The African Times-USA “This wonderful human being is my grandfather, the last time he saw me was in 1992 in Nasir, Sudan (now South Sudan). I left him and my father as a seven-year old little girl and returned to him as a 34 year old woman and a two-time college graduate. He was the one who buried my late father. I don’t have to tell you all what he

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