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VIDEO: RE-presenting Africans from an African perspective with agency, attitude and mission

8 May 2010

Check out this preview from Stocktown displaying “another Africa” and africans with not only attitude and agency but with a mission!

ARTICAL: Mulatu Astatke? Watch a Video by Ethiopia’s Coolest Musician and You’ll Never Forget Him

13 April 2010

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Mulatu Astatke is the man in charge of all of it. He writes the music, arranges it, and plays piano, organ, vibes and percussion. Although the Golden Years of this Ethiopian music were ancient history -- from 1968 to 1974 -- Astatke is still a major figure in Ethiopian music, regularly playing and teaching.

VIDEO: Go Forth And Multiply – the Ethiopian way!

10 July 2009

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“How the Ethiopians used the same mathematical approach to multiplications as computers do these days by using powers of two and divisions.” This is brillant! And strange. And then again, brillant! This short video aired on swedish television at a late hour and I just happend to see it randomly. Is this system still in use? What is it called? Some many [...]