Tag: Congo
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RC 239: Afro-Arab Part One – Cellphones & Icecream
Recently I’ve been checking out what has been called Electro Chaabi (or Cha’abi/Shaaby/Cha3by/mahragan aka ‘festival music’), the new-ish underground hiphop/pop music in Egypt, which led me back to the show I planned after going to Egypt and South Africa in 2011. In fact this music wasn’t new to me, it was all over Egypt blasting…
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Blood in your wires
Everyone knows that phones and the electronic devices might be made in some sweatshop in China (if you don’t google Foxconn for some really shocking stories)…what you mignt not know is your mobile and other devices share more than you think with blood diamonds – that blood has probably been shed in relation to the…