Month: December 2020

Since 2011 that respected kora player, vocalist and instrumentalist Sona Jobarteh dropped the album Fasiya, the world-renowned musician has not released any other album. Instead, she has been placing all her finances and energies into the Gambia Academy of Music and Culture she opened in her home country, The Gambia, in 2015.

The school is the first of its kind in The Gambia that teaches music and academic studies as an integrated course of study. In other words, the Academy educates children in their cultural traditions and heritage alongside the mainstream curriculum.

 

Source: Musician Sona Jobarteh is building Gambia’s first cultural academy for children to study their own culture – Face2Face Africa

 

 

A walk into the future, in a British city where housing is sustainable, energy is locally owned, food is abundant, and the work week is just three days long.

 

Source: The Sustainable Future Town of Your Imagination – Yes! Magazine

 

He was known for his illustrious career as an author and literary pioneer of the 19th century, but this came at a high cost since Alexander Dumas was a Frenchman of African descent.

Source: The rise and fall of Alexandre Dumas, the black author who ruled European literature in the 1800s – Face2Face Africa