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Nabiha is undoubtedly one of the most booming Danish stars right now.

In connection with the republishing her debut album Cracks in an international version, she makes a tour which brings her to VEGA. Nabiha has received international attention, and therefore she upgrades her debut album Cracks with four new songs including the single 'Trouble', already a massive radio hit. It is another step forward for a new unique woman figure in Danish pop. More Cracks which the international release has come to be called focuses on the more fast-paced part of the colorful and life-affirming pop, which gave Nabiha a very special position in Danish music.

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Dawda takes his traditional musical training from his Mande griot upbringing in Gambia and with the help of long-term friends and band members, Preben Carlsen on guitar, Nana Osibio on bass and Salieu Dibba on percussion, creates an intense contemporary vision of an ancient tradition.

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CD Launch of Northern Light Gambian Night by Dawda Jobarteh

Release Date: Monday 5 September 11

Members: Dawda Jobarteh KORA & VOC
ALMarie-line Marolany VOCAL
Maria Marolany VOCAL
Preben Carlsen GUITAR
Nana Osibio BASS
Salieu Dibba DJEMBE
Rasmus Lund DRUMS

Record Label: Sterns Music

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Nabiha er uden tvivl en af de mest fremadstormende danske stjerner lige nu. Hun er dobbelt nomineret  i P3 Guld og har en række roste koncerter bag sig. Nu står hun for første gang klar på den københavnske klub-scene ved en koncert i Koncerthusets Studie 2 lørdag 12. marts.

 For mere Info: Myspace og  Dr.dk

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EMMANUEL JAL
Concert and movie at Copenhagen Dox Film Festival 2010

WAR CHILD by Karim Chrobog
The 16 times international award winning documentary
about Emmanuel Jal´s life will be shown at the prestigious
CPH:DOX film festival 2010

Just won Best Documentary Award at the Warsaw International Doc Film Festival

GRAND TEATRET 5th of November 21:30-23:00

After the movie, EMMANUEL JAL will be performing a
LIVE CONCERT at the cinema stage.

You can continue the night with great live music:
AL AGAMI & MAKADEM with his band from Kenya
performs an Afro Luo Hip Hop midnight concert nearby, right after.

More info: http://www.womex.com/virtual/one_world/event/emmanuel_jal

Dawda Jobarteh - Dindingo

Dawda Jobarteh and his band live at Copenhagen Jazzhouse, August 2010. Recorded and produced by Jacob Crawfurd/ Crawfurd Media.

Senegal star Youssou N'dour launches TV channel

Senegalese pop star Youssou N'dour has officially launched his own television station in Senegal after a two-year struggle with the authorities.

The singer already owns a major private media group in Dakar, which tends to be critical of the authorities. The new channel, TFM, is officially a cultural one, after the authorities refused to grant him a licence for a general channel, correspondents say.

Dawda Jobarteh - Dindingo

Dawda Jobarteh and his band live at Copenhagen Jazzhouse, August 2010. Recorded and produced by Jacob Crawfurd/ Crawfurd Media.

Addis Ababa, 17 June 2010 (ECA) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has launched a network of community of experts and institutions involved in technology development and transfer in Africa, composed of leading African agencies responsible for technology development, adaptation, diffusion and transfer.

Rapper K'Naan's Wavin' Flag in World Cup triumph
By Ian Youngs
Music reporter, BBC News
 
An anthem by Somali-born rapper K'Naan has become the signature tune of this year's World Cup after being used in Coca Cola commercials and going to number one in 14 countries.

But Wavin' Flag was not written as a football song - beneath its celebratory tone is the story of its creator's narrow escape from a life of war and his subsequent rise as a hip-hop star and global role model.

K'Naan was luckier than most Somalis when his country fell into civil war in 1991.

Speech made by Ole Reitov at Copenhagen Wild Cards
June 30, 1996, Copenhagen

It was the famous South African Broadcaster, Evidence Bodibe, that in the year 2010 in his globally known programme - Another world - made the Norwegian refugees in Sudan aware of some forgotten and extremely interesting recordings of Same (laplanders) world music of the late nineties.
After the nuclear disaster in northern Europe in 2002, many Scandinavians had left Europe and were now found in pockets in Africa and their favourite programme was Bodibes "Another world".

Voices of change

 On the 28th November 1998, DAPAMDA in co-operation with South Africa Kontakt, organized the conference "Communicating Cultural Africa" at Copenhagen University. We invited 11 journalists from 10 countries in Africa for a week long seminar ending with a conference. "Communicating Cultural Africa" was an exchange of cultural knowledge, ideas and experience between journalists and artists and Danes interested in African culture. Dapamda member Matt Hunter reports about the conference.

African Culture on the WWW
 

Sona Diabaté (Guinea) one of the famous singers of West Africa, her charismatic stage presentation and her expressive, flexible voice spellbinds the audience at once. Her voice is soft and smooth, and then powerful like an "African Tina Turner". Her father, the famous singer Hadji Djeli Fodé Diabaté, taught her to sing and to play the balafon by familiy tradition. After some years at school she started a career as a griot singer and after meeting Miriam Makeba, a Guinean resident at that time, she joined the "Amazones de Guinée", Africa's first all-female band, which was famous worldwide, as a singer and rhythm guitar player.

African Cultur Awards 2001

Who takes the Grand Prix at the first Dapamda Africa Culture Awards 2001? This was one question running through the minds of African cultural enthusiasts in Denmark. On Saturday, February 3 and the answer was sorted out at Nørre Alle Medborghus at Sankt Hans Torv in Norrebro, when personalities and organisations promoting African culture in Denmark gathered there to receive the due acknowledgements, to climax Dapamda's Africa Cultural week that was held in Copenhagen, Arhus and Helsingør from January 20th to February 3rd 2001.