Why do some Albany, Georgia, residents turn to a free clinic for care when the main institution in town is the region’s largest hospital?
Watch our new documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia9pWMK9fDQ
#Documentary #Video #Georgia #Health #Hospital #Healthcare #Poverty
Balimaya Project – Wolo So
https://amf.didiermary.fr/balimaya-project-soninka-patronba/
The Balimaya Project is a collective of 16 musicians in UK (including members of Kokoroko and Seed Ensemble), fusing traditional Mandingo music with Jazz.
The Balimaya Project synthesizes and bridges London’s bustling jazz circuit with traditional repertoire and folklore of the Mandé peoples of West Africa.
Taga Sidibe – Wassoulou Foli
https://amf.didiermary.fr/taga-sidibe-wassoulou-foli/
Magnifique vidéo de Mamadou “Taga” Sidibé en 2009 pour Wassoulou Foli, le titre principal de l’album éponyme, enregistré en prise directe et l’on admirera l’installation de l’ingénieur du son…
Taga Sidibé est un djembefola renommé de la région du Wassoulou, au sud du Mali. Il s’agit de musique traditionnelle, celle des griots, des guérisseurs, […]
A quick selection of Brenda Fassie songs.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/brenda-fassie-songs/
In 1983, Brenda Fassie formed “Brenda and the Big Dudes” (with Blondie and Pappa Makhene), and that same year she had a breakthrough hit with “Weekend Special,” singing in the disco-flavored “bubblegum” [...]
#80smusic #90smusic #Disco #Documentary #Kwaito #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica #OldAfricanMusic
The Afrorack
https://amf.didiermary.fr/afrorack-bamanya/
Bamanya is responsible for building Africa’s first DIY modular synthesizer, a huge wall of home-made modules and FX units that he dubbed, fittingly, The Afrorack.
His reason for embarking on this difficult project was simple: as he began to investigate the world of modular synthesizers, he realized it would be difficult to acquire the technology […]
on why settler-colonialism is an aboslute evil, how a people and their culture co-exist and evolve with nature, how their language is specific to their way of life, and how their way of life is shaped by the land on which they live. Ultimately, uprooting a people, forcing them to move to another land, necessarily destroys their way of life and erases their culture.
#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Genocide #HumanRights #SettlerColonialism
80 minute documentary film “Israelism“ (by Vice, on YouTube)This film makes very clear what motivates Jewish pro-Palestinian people in the US to protest, and how their Jewish faith makes their conviction in peace and humanitarianism so powerful.
#USPol #Gaza #genocide #Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine #Judaism #SimoneZimmerman #IfNotNow #Documentary
Fela Kuti Special
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-special-documentary/
This post “Fela Kuti Special” is a selection of documentaries on the life, music and political commitment of the great Nigerian musician and how he evolved from Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti to Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the man with “death in his pouch.”
Miriam Makeba & Hugh Masekela – Soweto Blues
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-hugh-masekela-soweto-blues/
Freedom song! Soweto Blues, released in 1977, is a protest song written by Hugh Masekela and performed by Miriam Makeba.
The song is about the Soweto uprising that occurred in 1976, following the decision by the apartheid government of South Africa to make Afrikaans a medium of instruction [...]
#Apartheid #Documentary #HughMasekela #Jazz #Madiba #MiriamMakeba #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
Paul Simon & Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Homeless
https://amf.didiermary.fr/paul-simon-ladysmith-black-mambazo-homeless/
Graceland is the seventh solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was released on August 25, 1986. The song “Homeless” was the first recorded by Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo with lead singer Joseph Shabalala. It is considered one of the first modern “WorldMusic” albums, although [...]
#80smusic #Apartheid #Documentary #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica #Global
When the Drum is Beating
https://amf.didiermary.fr/when-the-drum-is-beating/
“When the Drum is Beating – Music is a Weapon” is a 2011 documentary by Whitney Dow.
The 20-member band Septentrional has been making music for 62 years as Haiti’s most celebrated big band. This inspirational doc charts the history of Haiti from its independence from French colonialism to 2010’s devastating earthquake-all set to the […]
Zomba Prison Project – I Have No Everything Here
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zomba-prison-project-i-have-no-everything-here/
In the summer of 2013, Grammy-winning producer, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, TV on the Radio) and his wife, Italian photographer and filmmaker, Marilena Delli, traveled to the south of Malawi specifically to document and record the music of prisoners at the maximum security prison in Zomba [as part of the “Zomba Prison Project”]. […]
After Hurricane Helene swept through North Carolina in September 2024, the Hill family fought hard for every federal aid dollar available to rebuild. They were displaced by the deadliest inland hurricane on record.
Watch their journey to return home: https://www.propublica.org/article/rebuilding-after-hurricane-helene-north-carolina?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Documentary #Hurricane #Helene #Anniversary #FEMA #Housing #Aid #Video
The story of Zamrock
https://amf.didiermary.fr/story-zamrock/
Discover the story of Zamrock, a music genre born in 1970s Zambia out of influences from James Brown’s funk and Jimi Hendrix’s acid guitar.
Seminal Zamrock groups such as Witch, Amanaz, 5 Revolutions, Ricky Banda, Ngozi Family, Oscillations, Fireballs, and Crossbones.
#70smusic #Documentary #Rock #Zambia #Zamrock #OldAfricanMusic
I Shot Bi Kidude – Trailer
https://amf.didiermary.fr/shot-bi-kidude-trailer/
I Shot Bi Kidude is a documentary on the Queen of Taarab music, her story, her music and Zanzibar.
“I shot Bi Kidude” – review on IMDb
A life-affirming documentary about an internationally famous Zanzibari singer and her last years. The film revisits the singer Bi Kidude, previously the subject of a documentary about her […]
Soul to Soul (1971)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/soul-to-soul-ghana-1971/
Je pensais vous avoir déjà parlé de ce fameux concert Soul to Soul, mais en fait il semble bien que je l’ai omis pour l’instant…
Quelques années après cet événement, il y eut le fameux “Soul Power” à Kinshasa en 1974. Celui-ci à Accra y ressemble un peu, mais sans le contexte des boxeurs… Ce concert […]
Punk in Africa (documentary)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/documentary-punk-africa-2012/
Punk in Africa is a 2012 multilingual African historical punk music film. “Three chords, three countries, one revolution… The documentary is the story of the multiracial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.”
In these societies, [...]
#Documentary #Mozambique #Punk #Ska #SouthAfrica #Zimbabwe #Global
Shangaan goes global…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/shangaan-goes-global/
South Africa has been for many years at the forefront of tradi-modern music, mixing ancient music styles and electro, House music mainly (e.g. Kwaito).
From traditional Shangaan music was born Shangaan Electro with producers like Nozinja, seen in this short documentary…
A dance movement and musical style born from [...]
Malan Mané – Fidju di lion
https://amf.didiermary.fr/malan-mane-fidju-di-lion/
“Fidju di Lion”, en référence à Amilcar Cabral et aux luttes de libération de la Guinée-Bissau, est un album publié en 2023 par Malan Mané, membre du légendaire groupe Super Mama Djombo.
Nombreux ont pensé qu’il était décédé, mais il vivait simplement en exil en France depuis 40 ans, attendant le moment de revenir à […]
Group Theory Black Music
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tumi-mogorosi-group-theory-black-music/
“The Group Theory Black Music” documentary follows the creative process, and intentions between drummer Tumi Mogorosi and the many collaborators on the album.
Since his international debut on Jazzman Records in 2014 with Project ELO, Mogorosi has been in the vanguard of the South African creative music scene’s burgeoning outernational dimension, [...]
#Documentary #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz #AvantGarde #Opera #Jazz
Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès – Short documentary
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dieuf-dieul-thies-promo-documentary/
The band Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès did not manage to release any of its recordings for 30+ years. Here’s a short documentary for the release of “Aw Sa Yone Vol. 2” in 2015, after Vol. 1 in 2013.
On Vol. 1 the tracks were well divided among three singers: Assane Camara with his unique style, […]
Boubacar Traoré – Duna Ma Yelema
https://amf.didiermary.fr/boubacar-traore-duna-ma-yelema/
Boubacar Traoré (born 1942 in Kayes, Mali), also known as “Kar Kar“, is a Malian singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Duna Ma Yelema (The World Has Not Changed) is an extract from “Je Chanterai pour Toi”, a film by Jacques Sarasin in 2001.
Jackson Five in Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jackson-five-africa/
“Jackson Five in Africa” est un documentaire (50 mn environ), qui montre le premier voyage des Jackson Five (ou 5 ?), dont Michael, alors agé de 16 ans, en Afrique, et leur arrivée à Dakar au Sénégal du 1er au 3 février 1974.
A priori, d’après ce que l’on peut lire en ligne, cette tournée […]
Fela Kuti Box Set – The Legacy
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-box-set-the-legacy/
The Fela Kuti Box Set curated by Idris Elba is out now! In addition, a short documentary entitled “Fela Kuti: The Legacy” is available for viewing (below), revealing the Afrobeat pioneer’s cultural impact.
Directed by Kayode Thomas, it delves into the profound influence Fela had on fashion, style, and culture, as well as his impactful […]
Gangbé – Documentary
https://amf.didiermary.fr/documentary-arnaud-robert-gangbe-brass-band/
Preview of the 2014 documentary by Arnaud Robert relating Gangbé Brass Band‘s “quest” to record their new album and play in Lagos.
The adventure of a Benin brass band on the road to Lagos, to perform with Femi Kuti at the Shrine. […]
WATCH: More than 80% of U.S. children attend public schools.
Some of the Education Department’s ultraconservative advisers, led by Secretary Linda McMahon, want to change that.
Here’s an inside look at their dismantling of public education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NYq_N6fO-w
#Documentary #Film #Journalism #Video #Education #Family #Children #Parenting #School
