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 04:48:42 -0000 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:15:00 -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=70F07C3E-CC40-1DB8-22DC920CC64EF550 One of the most pressing challenges for Africa's newly independent nations of the 1960s was to create a sense of 'national' identity, to bind their citizens to a national polity whose authority took precedence over regional or ethnic affiliations and political systems. These young nations, had to find ways to unite, politically and socially, ethnically diverse populations who- in ways their pre-colonial ancestors did not have to- were now forced to shared resources and territory (whose boundari... Zambia Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:15:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=70F07C3E-CC40-1DB8-22DC920CC64EF550