Youssou N’Dour and”I Bring What I Love”: An elegaic meditation on …
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- Letter: Board member defends Senegal
- Lake Studying Slave Trade in Senegal Gambia
- African Dance Festival has a serious case of happy feet
- Talking Shop: Baaba Maal
- Church works for peace and understanding in the US
Youssou N’Dour and”I Bring What I Love”: An elegaic meditation on …
Huffington Post
“I Bring What I Love” is an elegiac beautiful film years in the making and it will start playing in New York this week and then in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Like all documentaries it will be dwarfed by the summer blockbusters that surround it but this film deserves an audience. In 2004 N’Dour’s album “Egypt” created a controversy in Senegal and among a vocal handful of his fans because he set verses of the Koran to music. ne of the debates between more fundamentalist Muslims and much of Muslim society world-wide is over the proper role of music in worship – not unlike the struggles among Baptists about dancing. N’Dour was and is a hugely popular singer with a world-wide following and adored in Senegal and the negative reaction of several key members of the religious establishment in his country saddened and surprised him. N’Dour speaks passionately in the film about his love of God and his devotion to the Koran and explains that he could think of no better way to honor his faith and his God than by putting those verses to music as generations of Sufi mystics have done. His album ultimately won a Grammy and in 2008 N’Dour was named one of Time Magazine’s most influential people.
Letter: Board member defends Senegal
2TheAdvocate
Senegal this is the only way I can respond and at least let the public know what really happened. Austin Badon’s office but not the way he treated Louisiana School Board Association Executive Director Nolton Senegal. Senegal is a fine upstanding man who has done nothing wrong. All he did was work hard to help defeat a bad bill.
Lake Studying Slave Trade in Senegal Gambia
Wabash College
Tim Lake is hoping five weeks in Africa helps him create a class on slave trading and enhance his efforts to improve African studies at Wabash College. Lake is in Senegal and Gambia with 14 other educators on a Fulbright-Hays Seminar funded by the U. Department of Education. The teachers are from grades K-12 and college faculty. Lake is a Wabash English Professor and Director of the Malcol.
African Dance Festival has a serious case of happy feet
Tallahassee Democrat
It will be featured prominently at this weekend’s 12th Annual African Dance Festival and during the festival’s grand finale concert Saturday night at FAMU’s Lee Hall Auditorium. You can bet it will be upbeat. “You’ve got to make sure they (the dancers) laugh you have to make them have a good time it’s a celebration dance” Senegalese dancer choreographer and instructor Malang Bayo said from his home in Brooklyn. “I love for everybody to get comfortable.
Talking Shop: Baaba Maal
BBC News
getEmpEmbeddedParams(”emp_8095658″);AdvertisementBaaba Maal performs the title track from his latest album TelevisionEight years since his last studio album Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal is back with a new record Television. The multi-lingual album blends electronic dance elements with Maal’s gently plucked guitar and traditional West African style. Born in the small fishing town of Podor on the Senegal River he belonged to a caste traditionally restricted to working as fishermen and field workers. But he was encouraged to explore music by his mother and his lifelong friend the blind griot (hereditary musician) Mansour Seck. Before his recent performance on Later.
Church works for peace and understanding in the US
Examiner.com
org) While President bama works to define his goals for improving relations with the Middle East and various Muslim countries around the world the United Methodist church as well as ecumenical organizations continue work to bring peace and health to these troubled areas. The UMC has been working in Senegal for decades first doing relief work through UMCR then establishing churches at the invitation of a Muslim leader in the country. Since the mid-90s the church has established 17 congregations as well as prison ministries micro-loan programs women’s ministries and agricultural programs in the country. The first group of pastors ordained in 2007 included Dibor Fatou Ndour who is the first woman to ever be ordained in any Senegal church. By working with the Muslim churches in the area the UMC has promoted peaceful solutions to many issues in Senegal. In Pakistan the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCR) allocated $11000 to Church World Service and Muslim Aid as well as helping with relief efforts among displaced people in the area.
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