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 02:09:31 -0000 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:40:00 -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=C2DFCE27-A12C-009B-242010E4FE7F3984 One of the great pleasures of working at the Voice of America is the letters, pictures and cassettes that our listeners send us from throughout Africa (in the future I'll devote a post to some of the home-recordings we have received). Last week I saw this beautiful snapshot of a listener from northern Niger on a colleague's desk: on the backside he wrote "I've got two radios in case one break's down."My first thought was, "I wonder what kind of music he listens to on his two radios?"  This ... Niger Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:40:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=C2DFCE27-A12C-009B-242010E4FE7F3984