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 02:22:19 -0000 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:36:00 -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=56B755B1-D75C-B373-C679A30EC217E125 Today I'm going to take you back to the 1960s (and early 1970s) with some great music from Burkina Faso. Let's start with L'Harmonie Voltaique, the group that was founded by Antoine Ouedraogo in 1948. They were the first group created to play 'modern music' in what was then the French West African colony of Upper-Volta. In early 1948 Antoine Ouedraogo was working for the French colonial administration in Mali (which at the time was called the French Sudan). That spring he returned to Upper-Volta... Burkina Faso Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:36:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=56B755B1-D75C-B373-C679A30EC217E125