Articles tagged "ghana"

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Various Artists: Marvellous Boy: Calypso From West Africa

by Deanne Sole

[24.Apr.09] :. The tracks are stubbornly various, each song unexpected.

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Seprewa Kasa: Seprewa Kasa

by Deanne Sole

[1.Oct.08] :. This album is all soothe and salve, looking back to the heyday of highlife.

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Various: Black Stars

by Deanne Sole

[8.Jul.08] :. Black Stars is an adeptly compiled hiplife snapshot, giving us a sampling of recent arrivals like Tic Tac, as well as godfather figures such as Reggie Rockstone.

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Nigerian film DVDs fly off the shelves in South Florida

by Georgia East [South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT)]

[21.Sep.07] :. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—They’ve never walked along the dusty roads of Lagos, Nigeria, or set foot in an extravagant mansion in Ghana. But fans of African movies now being sold in South...

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Books Review

Shes Gone by Kwame Dawes

by Claudia Smith Brinson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.May.07] :. Kwame Dawes' first novel, She's Gone, is an awkward love story.

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The Mountian Goats: Ghana

by Jeremy Schneyer

[18.Jun.02] :. John Darnielle writes lots of songs. However, unlike, say, Bob Pollard, who also writes lots of songs (half of which are brilliant and half of which are crap), the vast majority of Darnielle’s...

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