Min kontakt med musiken från Mali är tämligen begränsad. Första gången jag visste att jag lyssnade på den var när jag tog del av Damon Albarns resebeskrivning i toner i början av 00-talet. Sen dess har jag lyssnat på Amadou & Mariam (som fått skit för att de låter för europeiska e...

Filed under: Celeb kids, Celeb parenting Beanie Baby manufacturer Ty Inc. learned this week that when you try to capitalize on the fame of new, adorable First Kids, you better check with the First Mama beforehand. Shortly after President Barack Obama's inauguration, Ty released two new Beanie Baby T...

I asked our Heavenly Father to put me on the minds of those who have been praying for me to pray for me yesterday and today. I needed to open a bank account here. One of the documents that I needed is obtained from a police station. It is a long story but, I went to a police station where I had a co...

Toubab Krewe blend African rhythms with rock and put on an incredible live show. They are releasing an album, Live at the Orange Peel, on January 6 chronicling one of those shows and will be celebrating the release at S.O.B.s on Thursday, January 8. The band is from Asheville, NC and have performed ...

Posted by Jenn Lowther Please help Invoke support Plan Canada and the village of N’Gouraba by donating to the cause at Plan’s website. Vancouver’s first annual blogathon for charity is set to start 10 pm Friday, July 26 and will finish 9 pm Sunday, July 28.  There are three shifts...

All the investigators found was a 380 caliber handgun, $12 in cash, a baseball cap, and a bag of T-shirts in a trash bin. They are till looking for the animals who took Anissi Ndeumajado's life, and critically injured his wife. Years ago Ndeumajado immigrated to this country from West Africa. He sta...

Let's face it people; this country is going to proverbial hell in a not-so-proverbial handbasket. The Democratic party is imploding, gas prices are so high that Jay Leno can only afford to fill up 30 of his cars, and Lara Flynn Boyle is quickly morphing into Priscilla Presley. In troubled times like...

BBC NEWS | Africa | Mali’s ‘infertility cooking oil’ By Celeste Hicks BBC News, Bamako Many Malian families sitting around a wide brightly coloured plastic bowl and tucking into tasty traditional dishes such as “riz gras” - fatty rice, groundnut sauce and fried mutton -...

YESTERDAY, I ATTENDED MY FIRST FUNERAL. I wore white and so did the corpse. The body was wrapped in a heavy, white cloth and placed under a mango tree, surrounded by dozens of old women with missing teeth, gray hair, and skin as dry as coconut shells. The old ladies wore mismatched swatches of brigh...