The News Review:

- Youssou N’Dour at The Rio
- Annapolis… And The Day After Next Week’s Conference Is nly A…
- ESPN Page 2 – Easterbrook: TMQ feedback (11/21/07)
- Côte d’Ivoire: Hip Hop Artist Boobah Siddik Mixes Politics and…

Youssou N’Dour at The Rio
metroactive.com – Nov 21, 2007
By his midteens N’Dour was performing with Senegal’s leading pop group the Star Band de Dakar and had been dubbed “Le Petit Price de Dakar. ” He made the move to Paris in the early ’80s and recorded a series of albums including the mbalax classic Immigres. All the while he maintained close connections with Senegal performing frequently in Dakar and opening a recording studio and a nightclub. His 10-member band Super Etoile boasts virtually the same personnel as when he founded it and his music often extols traditional sectors of society like his soaring tune “Beykat” an ode to people who work the land. “My own extended family comes from the village” N’Dour says. “When I write a song like this where I have injected a bit of political commentary I do it because I want to help defend the farmers’ interests. This song received a very positive reaction in the country.

Annapolis… And The Day After Next Week’s Conference Is nly A…
CBS News – Nov 21, 2007
Toss in representatives from the G-8 industrialized nations and the Quartet. And the Quartet’s Special Envoy Tony Blair. Sprinkle in high officials from such interested parties as the European Union Indonesia Malaysia Brazil Slovenia and Senegal – nearly fifty countries and organizations in all!Why such a crowd? The simple answer is that it gives an international stamp of approval up front to what Mr. Bush and Rice are trying to do. It is also correcting one of the big mistakes made by the Clinton administration in the run up to Camp David in 2000. “This time we tried to have Arab engagement and involvement all along the way” Rice told reporters at the State Department. By getting Arab states and countries with large Muslim populations to signal their support for such a process the weak Palestinian government led by Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) knows it has some outside support something the late Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat could not count on when he went to Camp David.

ESPN Page 2 – Easterbrook: TMQ feedback (11/21/07)
ESPN – Nov 21, 2007
Note: Sportswriters cannot summarize the contribution of Michael Faraday name any book by Willa Cather or identify the capital of Senegal yet they all use the word “eschew. “Tim Labonte of Houston writes “Navy coach Paul Johnson may be aware of your theory on punting. Navy has only punted 15 times in 11 games this year and I believe the NCAA record for least punts is 17 in a season. Navy leads the nation in rushing and it averages 5. 7 yards per rush [so] for Navy going for it on fourth-and-short is playing the percentages.

Côte d’Ivoire: Hip Hop Artist Boobah Siddik Mixes Politics and…
AllAfrica.com – Nov 21, 2007
However when I asked Boobah Siddik who was originally from Côte d'Ivoire why he used English he said while his first album was in French he felt rapping in English would get his message across to a more diverse audience especially in the United States. Boobah Siddik’s upcoming CD Dead Goats: Chronicles of a Jindo is due out this month on the independent label Armadawah Records. The album will feature collaborations with artists such as Wanlov (Ghana) Lone Starr (Jamaica) Sandstorm Ja and Smoka Seezy (Senegal) and Lord Cheik (Ivory Coast). Boobah Siddik’s other project is his website UnitedNationsofHipHop. It launched in 2005 and focuses on African hip hop artists giving them a platform to get their message out. In addition to information on artists it provides articles on hip hop including those published by allAfrica. com and other news sources.