Archive for the ‘Africa’ Category

” Fair Trade ” …

Sunday, May 18th, 2008
  1. Equatorial Guinea Economy 2008, CIA World Factbook

    Government officials and their family members own most businesses. Equatorial Guinea now has the fourth highest per capita income in the world, after Luxembourg, Bermuda, and Jersey.

  2. Equatorial Guinea – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    A huge proportion of the £370 million revenue is confiscated by the president while most of the 500,000 subjects subsist on less than a dollar a day, sewage runs through the streets of the capital Malabo, and there is no public transport and little drink

Fela Kuti – Music is the Weapon

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

copied from http://www.ballofstringtheory.com

It’s ten years to the day that Fela Kuti died of AIDS. Here’s a clip from the 1982 documentary ‘Music is the Weapon’ by Stephane Tchal-Gadjieff and Jean Jacques Flori.