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 03:05:32 -0000 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:08:00 -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=DD4442EA-C794-8152-ECE9D2AC80701BF8 This fourth, and for now, final, installment of African Islamic music features recordings from the Cote D'Ivoire, Benin and Nigeria. (I think I will wait until next year to present the Islamic recordings we have in our collection from Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Niger, Northern Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Egypt. My original plan to highlight selections from all of our recordings by the end of the month of Ramadan was too ambitious!) One of the most enlightening aspects of going throug... Cote D'Ivoire Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:08:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=DD4442EA-C794-8152-ECE9D2AC80701BF8 http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=EA4AD8AE-AD32-1D52-F648C652A41D78A8 Over the last several years it has been difficult to escape music from the Cote D'Ivoire. Throughout all of West Africa, and much of the rest of the continent, it seems like every nightclub and radio station has been going heavy on the Coupe Decaler and it's many offshoots (the grippe aviare, the decaler chinois, the decaler Drogba and- most recently-the fatiguer fatiguer). Although I find many of the tracks released by the Cote D'Ivoire's prolific DJs irresistible, over the last year my interes... Cote D'Ivoire Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:40:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=EA4AD8AE-AD32-1D52-F648C652A41D78A8