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 02:43:48 -0000 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:47:00 -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=E7161D2B-D5C9-C6BD-D25DEB5428988B78 Kadongo Kamu, or 'one guitar music', is a style of narrative song from central Uganda that dates back to the early 1950s. Over the last fifty years the genre has gone through many transformations, but has never strayed from its central purpose: communicating traditional wisdom and morals through anecdotes, stories, and social commentary. The earliest 'Kadongo Kamu' musicians accompanied their stories only with the Endongo (the bowl-lyre of the Baganda people), while later generations have turned... Uganda Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:47:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=E7161D2B-D5C9-C6BD-D25DEB5428988B78