http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm African music treasures is a Voice of America blog that allows you to discover rare African recordings from the VOA's unique African music library. Many of the recordings featured on the blog are unreleased recordings of traditional and contemporary music that were originally recorded for the VOA program MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA. en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:13:35 -0000 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:00:00 -0000 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mlavoie@voanews.com mlavoie@voanews.com http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=6242F688-D4A6-3DDF-D9D2EDCAA64904E4 Every Saturday and Sunday evening, during the four months of the dry season (June through September), villages throughout Sao Tome come together to shuffle to the warm pulse of the island's most popular dance rhythms. These weekly dances, or 'fundoes' (which literally translates as 'the bottom', as in the old blues line 'down in the bottom', and refers to the public spaces that were cordoned off for dancing) bring together Sao Tome's different communities; the Creoles, descendents of Portuguese... Sao Tome & Principe Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:00:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=6242F688-D4A6-3DDF-D9D2EDCAA64904E4