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Deloitte Ignite Africa Weekend – review

4853 days ago

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonYinka Shonibare, curator of this year's Deloitte Ignite weekend at the Royal Opera House, is an artist who works with provocative, deliberately anachronistic juxtapositions. His Diary of a Victorian Dandy inserts an African m... more info

Africa Express: rolling coverage

4853 days ago

Guardian Music — For the next week, more than 80 African and western acts – including Amadou and Mariam, Damon Albarn and many more – are touring the UK by train, stopping off for shows in schools and factories and a series of special gigs. With exclusive access ... more info

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Watch Africa Express at Glastonbury 2007 – video

4854 days ago

Guardian Music — The musical collective known as Africa Express played its first-ever proper gig at the Glastonbury festival in 2007. Here is Algerian singer Rachid Taha covering the Clash's Rock the Casbah with Damon Albarn, Billy Bragg, Baaba Maal and more more info

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Rio Ferdinand: 'I love the rawness in African music'

4861 days ago

Guardian Music — The Manchester United star explains why he's supporting Africa Express, which features 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKThe Manchester United player grew up in Peckham, south London. He has worked on football proje... more info

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Kano: 'Africa Express is random and surreal. Wicked, though'

4861 days ago

Guardian Music — The London MC and actor on this year's Africa Express, which features 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKBorn Kane Robinson in Newham, east London, Kano is a grime MC and actor. His fifth solo album is out this year.... more info

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Fatoumata Diawara: 'We can present our culture in a new way'

4861 days ago

Guardian Music — The Malian singer on her hopes for African music and Africa Express, which features 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKSince the release of her acclaimed debut, Fatou, last year, the statuesque Malian singer has prov... more info

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Jupiter Bokondji: 'The cultural riches of Congo are immense'

4861 days ago

Guardian Music — The Congolese star on his country's music and the UK Africa Express tour, featuring 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKJupiter Bokondji is the star of Jupiter's Dance, a seminal documentary about the music scene in K... more info

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Africa Express: a magical mystery tour

4861 days ago

Guardian Music — Eighty musicians, one train and a string of stops across Britain. This could be the most extraordinary tour of the year…It's late afternoon in west London and the Senegalese star Baaba Maal and Damon Albarn, from nearby in the neighbourhood, are lo... more info

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Damon Albarn: 'We're there to spread the joy'

4861 days ago

Guardian Music — The singer, one of the driving forces behind Africa Express, on his hopes for the tour, which features 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKDamon Albarn's creative period didn't end when Blur pressed pause in 2003: it ... more info

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JJ DOOM - Keys To The Kuffs (album stream)

4862 days ago

Totally Fuzzy — JJ DOOM, the collaboration between DOOM (formerly MF DOOM) and producer/rapper Jneiro Jarel, released their full-length, Key to the Kuffs, August 20 through Lex Records. Now, you can hear finally hear what the Damon Albarn collaboration "Bite the ... more info

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Deloitte Ignite Africa Weekend – review

Africa Express: rolling coverage

Watch Africa Express at Glastonbury 2007 – video

Rio Ferdinand: 'I love the rawness in African music'

Kano: 'Africa Express is random and surreal. Wicked, though'

Fatoumata Diawara: 'We can present our culture in a new way'

Jupiter Bokondji: 'The cultural riches of Congo are immense'

Africa Express: a magical mystery tour

Damon Albarn: 'We're there to spread the joy'

JJ DOOM - Keys To The Kuffs (album stream)

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