Africa is waking up..

The reggae legend Bob Marley would be proud if he were still alive and see how his son, Junior Gong a.k.a Damian Marley (real name) teamed up with all-time favourite emcee Nasir Jones (Nas) to come up with the best of both worlds (reggae and hip-hop), Distant Relatives (released 2010). The album is a tribute to Africa, for Africa and by Africa- most of the beats were sampled from African beats, lingala, zouk to pure acoustic. The song speak alot about the African situation; famine, war, diseases, poverty, poor leadeship and many ill-fates following the continet all over.

The artistes may have sung as a calling from the 'dark' continent or for the thrill (not commercial since all the proceeds are coming to develop Africa) but silently their call has been heeded. Bamboo (Simon Kimani) released a statement (Jan 31, 2010) relating to the North Africa situation on his facebook account.  Africa is waking up, old-fashioned monarchs and presidents-for-life are out of fashion. Africa is waking up...

..there and back again,

..after trying it out  a couple of times to start and run a blog, i finally managed. It was funny, forgeting the password, forgeting the process (techno-savvy is a skill) and being in a writers block most of the time. Being a new year, tables have turned, going all out I say... So I was there but now I'm back again,