Tag: Nigeria
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RC 382: Enjoy Your Life?
As we gear up for the Coronation (NOT MY KING! Unless he is getting into the swing) here’s a mix for your Corona Nation Party. This is partly a twin of 381, but more of a reflective/dancefloor meditation on enjoying life and growing older. It’s a lot more fun than that sounds, with creepy blackbirds,…
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Romy’s New Track Features Beverly Glenn-Copeland Sample
Discover the powerful message behind Romy Madley Croft’s new track featuring a sample from Beverley Glenn-Copeland’s “La Vita”. Learn why the line “My mother says to me enjoy your life” resonated deeply with Romy and how it inspired her latest work. Find out more about Beverley Glenn-Copeland and his album “Primal Prayer”.
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African Disco Electro
We’re no stranger to African electronica, Afrobeat highlife, and African funk on this blog – previously mixed, remixed, played or blogged about William Onyeahbor (RIP), Victor Uwaifo, Benis Cletin, Supermax, Fela and Femi Kuti, Lijadu Sisters and many more. So it’s not a surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of Nigerian and South…
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Commonwealth? Well not for the LGBTQ
With the Commonwealth Games nearly over and seem to be a success, the assumption is the Commonwealth is some happy cuddly family. Well not quite. This graphic gave me cause to pause* – 42 out of the 53 Commonwealth countries still have anti-gay laws on the books, making being gay/queer a crime, and are enforcing…
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WordPress Security 101
Running several WordPress sites, especially ones that gather a lot of welcome and unwelcome visitors, is a crash course in security. I’ve been using WordPress since version 1.2, where hacks were much more common, and thankfully have only been hacked once *touch wood*, back in the 1.5 days. For those not part of the WordPress…
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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…