Click on the link here for Audio Player – Ebola fears in Canada – May 17, 1995 – NPR News Report – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the news in recent weeks of the Ebola Virus, rearing its plague-ridden head once again, it’s good to remember The Ebola Virus has
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – September 25, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Africa was a hotbed of change, this September 25th in 1979. With the overthrow of the Central African Emperor Bokassa, who likened himself to Napoleon and ordered massacres
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio News – July 24, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection On this July 24th in 1994, news was about the U.S. mission to send relief and supplies to the refugees of the Rwandan genocide, who fled to camps in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – July 18, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As mad as the world seems this July 18th in 2014, it was just as mad – driven just as insane, this July 18th in 1994. Twenty years
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Sir Roy Walensky of Southern Rhodesia on Meet The Press – October 27, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the Independence movements in Africa began to gather steam, so too did concerns that violence would break out. Visions of a
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC Africa Service – BBC World Service News – July 23-29, 2009 With the latest horrifying news, regarding the kidnapping of some 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria by the extremist-fundamentalist group Boko Haram, I was reminded this episode is the latest in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News Special – Biographies In Rhythm – July 26, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In the 1950s, as Jazz evolved and as Rhythm & Blues and Rock n’ Roll exploded on the scene, mainstream media were scratching their collective
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bibi Tanga & The Senelites – live at Au Fil des Voix – Feb. 8, 2014 – RFI Monde A taste of Central Africa by way of Bibi Tanga & The Senelites, live at Au Fil des Voix festival, recorded this
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Tinariwen – In Concert from Salle Pleyel, Paris – February 2, 2012 – RFI-Monde With the recent surge in interest in Desert Blues, a flood of bands had been getting world attention of late. Luckily for all of us, many of
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR: Options – U.S. Policy on Angola – Feb. 13, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the independence movements unfolded in Africa, and as nations emerged and went through the pangs of growth and adjustment, one of the most contentious
