Check out this amazing movie clip from "Throw Down Your Heart" - a new film of a road trip from East to West Africa discovering African musicians who play a variety of instruments that engendered the banjo, and singers including Oumou Sangare. Shown this month at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History, NYC, the film was made by Sascha Paladino, and follows American musician Bela Fleck (Sascha's brother) traveling from Uganda to Tanzania to Gambia to Mali. DVDs of the movie will be available this summer and music CDs in February.
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THIS MONTH'S FEATURED BOOKS
SELF DETERMINATION AND
NATIONAL UNITY
A Challenge for Africa
Edited by Francis M. Deng
Most African countries suffer from crises of national identity that are rooted in the formation of pluralistic states, characterized by gross inequities among the component groups. Oftentimes, the state gets captured by dominant groups that then define the national identity framework on their terms to give themselves the preeminent status as the favored citizens who enjoy all the rights and dignity of citizenship.
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NEW SUDAN IN THE MAKING?Essays on a Nation in Painful Search of Itself
Edited by Francis M. Deng
“New Sudan” is a concept for radically reforming Sudan’s governance system by addressing the national identity crisis that has been responsible for the wars, the instability and the failure of the national building project that have afflicted the country since independence. The gist of the crisis is that the dominant Arab group, which is in fact an African Arab hybrid and a minority, perceives the country in its image as an Arab-Islamic nation. This inevitably discriminates against the non-Arab and non-Moslem
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