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As a tribute to Amadou Bagayoko, who recently died at age 70 in Bamako, I would like to remind people of this 2017 live performance / interview at KEXP. The duo began playing live, and I feel that's where they are at their best.
I ni baraji fɔlikan ye, Amadou. (thanks for the music, Amadou)
#Music #Ethnomusicology #WorldMusic #Mali #Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4o_pAxoRTU
Seeing mountain gorillas in the wild is a magical bucket list experience for many travelers to Rwanda, but it hasn’t always been possible. Poachers decimated gorilla numbers in the 1960s and 70s. Then came the Rwandan genocide in 1994. @BBCNews has more on the global success story of mountain gorilla conservation, partly due to the annual celebrations of baby gorillas being born.
BBC · The vital tradition of naming baby gorillas
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The next generation of Bakonzo people will be profoundly impacted by the loss of glaciers. Masereka says: ‘I will tell my son it was very beautiful to have snow on the Rwenzori for our livelihood … it will be unfortunate, but I will encourage him to involve himself in conservation-related activities as an alternative to the snow, which was our resource in our time’
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A channel carrying water to communities in the foothills of the Rwenzori. Glaciers act as a buffer – feeding rivers during dry seasons and regulating water flow. Their loss increases droughts, floods and even wildfires.
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By 2024 the glacier on Mount Stanley has retreated. Project Pressure’s data revealed a loss in surface area of 29.5% between 2020 and 2024
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Mount Stanley holds the last glacial ice in Rwenzori, but the glaciers are fragmenting. This image was taken by Klaus Thymann in 2022
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The path to ascend the Rwenzori runs past Lake Bujuku, one of several lakes partly formed and replenished by glacial meltwater. The mountain range is the highest and most permanent source of the River Nile, with a water catchment relied upon by 5 million people, including the Bakonzo.
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By 2024, ice remained on Speke, but not enough to be defined as a glacier. The three highest peaks in the Rwenzori mountains – Speke, Baker and Stanley – have been so eroded by the climate crisis that only Stanley’s glacier remains.
Africa's last glaciers
Mount Speke topped with ice in 2012. The Rwenzori mountains are one of the world’s most remote and dramatic landscapes, thought to be the legendary Mountains of the Moon mentioned by ancient Greek geographers such as Ptolemy.
Photographs by Project Pressure
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@gerrymcgovern And they exploit everything and everone in their #greed https://theconversation.com/africas-data-workers-are-being-exploited-by-foreign-tech-firms-4-ways-to-protect-them-252957 via @TheConversationUS
The ConversationAfrica’s data workers are being exploited by foreign tech firms – 4 ways to protect themThere is a need to create regional or continent-wide regulatory frameworks for protection of African gig workers.
More on #genomics, this is obviously crazy since the #world's #genetic #diversity is contained within #Africa. Yet African DNA is underrepresented! Oh dear, it should not be only African scientists noticing this.
'African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent’s vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African populations.'
RFI · Scientists warn African DNA is missing from the global genome map
ICYMI: Scientists use magnetic minerals, fossil records, and innovative mapping to reconstruct our planet's 4-billion-year geological #history. You can trace the movement of continents from ancient Pangea to today's landscape, explaining how our world has constantly reshaped itself. 
Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/magnetite-and-moving-maps-tracking-4-billion-years-of-plate-tectonics
Ich höre seit Tagen nur noch Fela Kuti und bekomme nicht genug von der Musik. Ich habe ihn schon früher viel gehört, aber noch nie so intensiv wie jetzt 
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=uSsrLqyiMDA
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For years economists have argued the key to a revival of economic development across the African continent is the reduction of barriers to trade *within* Africa.... as many countries find their exports to the US market constrained by the Liberation Day tariffs, further multilateral reductions in trade barriers across Africa (both for goods & services) look sensible.
Its an ill wind that blows no good & this might be a prompt for some helpful moves across Africa.
#Africa #World #Revolution #Solidarity #Future #Military #Community
Since the ongoing #war began in #Sudan, #revolutionary #youth groups that were critical in ending the 30-year #dictatorship of #OmarAlBashir have been #organizing and running #EmergencyResponse Rooms across the country, to provide #MutualAid to #civilians. The #SudanSolidarityCollective is #fundraising for them, and running #workshops for #advocacy and #CommunityBuilding.
www.sudansolidarity.comSudan Solidarity Collective
Africa: U.S. Africa Command 2025 Posture Statement to Senate Armed Services Committee: [Africom] Washington D.C. -- U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Michael E. Langley, commander of U.S. Africa Command, testified yesterday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, delivering the command's 2025 posture statement and highlighting the strategic importance of the African continent. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJyHfF #Africa #USMilitary #AfricanCommand #SenateHearing #GlobalStrategy
Africa: WHO Brings Countries Together To Test Collective Pandemic Response: [WHO] Geneva -- Over the past two days, WHO convened more than 15 countries and over 20 regional health agencies, health emergency networks and other partners to test, for the first time, a new global coordination mechanism for health emergencies. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJyBzF #Africa #WHO #PandemicResponse #GlobalHealth #HealthEmergency
Africa: Opinion - #namibia - Africa's Best-Kept Secret: [New Era] Over the past three weeks, we have monitored the #Namibia hashtag across social media and online platforms. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJxzTz #Namibia #Africa #Travel #Tourism #Adventure
