Mr Legend [@its_mr_legend] – No Love No peace feat All Stars

So,after d release of a dope single titles THANK GOD RELOADED’ by Mr Legend ft Chidoski which was named best song for d week online.. D HML Music Family President Mr Legend is back with a life transforming single titles NO LOVE NO PEACE ft ALLSTARS. Which according to him, is a peace campaign song.. Produced by RITZY_B. The song is very lovely and catchy….. Download and enjoy….

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NEW MUSIC: Golda C – Juice (Prod. By Collinso)

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Finally it’s here again, Golda C a.k.a Mizzy Lover the Eastern Shawama goddess returns to mesmerize us with her new single titled “Juice” produced by Collinso of Studio One Classic.

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• Why are so many African flags red, yellow and green? It may be connected to Ethiopia’s successful resistance to colonialism (although Ken Opalo raises other posibilities in the comments)

• In other Ethiopian news, Alex de Waal argues that improved governance means that the era of great famines is over

• The synthesis report from the Developmental Regimes in Africa project is one of the single best pieces I’ve seen about economic development in years

• A thought provoking article from Tim Hirschel-Burns makes the case that the US ought to cancel all aid to Somalia and accept 80,000 Somali immigrants instead

• Eight years for falling asleep in a parked car: welcome to Angola’s prison system

• Grieve Chelwa has a typically excellent post on major flaws in the Corruption Perceptions Index, and the problem of excusing tax havens from discussions of corruption

• Ryan Briggs writes about declining…

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Where is Wakanda?

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I saw Captain America: Civil War earlier this month, and since then I’ve been pondering a question that unites my interests in Africa, maps, and Marvel movies: where is Wakanda?  In the comics, the country appears to move around the Sahel, presumably depending on whoever’s drawing it.  Julian Chambliss has a great overview of Wakanda’s surprising mobility, featuring a 1500+ mile move in just two years.

The latter map is closer to the image of Wakanda shown briefly during a news broadcast in Captain America.

I produced a clean version of this image in Google Maps.  It appears that the MCU’s Wakanda occupies a decent part of northern Kenya around Lake Turkana, plus bits of South Sudan and Ethiopia as well.

Because I’m fond of this type of counterfactual, I found myself wondering: what might this iteration of Wakanda really look like, if the basic story…

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Which African news stories are undercovered?

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This and other interesting graphs to be found at the new African Visual Data site

• There’s been some excellent analysis of the crisis in South Sudan recently, including Aly Verjee‘s analysis of the failure of the peace process, and Christine Mungai‘s argument that the return to war wasn’t surprising in light of general trends in African conflict

• In Somalia, men who joined Al-Shabaab out of piety and a desire for money and excitement are now being demobilized, having found that the organization largely failed to live up to their aspirations.  The country also has its first female candidate for president, a Harvard graduate named Fadumo Dayib

• Of protests and policing: in Zimbabwe, the independence war veterans who have long made up Mugabe’s main support base are finally turning against his 36-year rule.  Nanjala Nyabola says that police brutality in Kenya can be traced to…

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DJ Bobby Press – Some More f. JayRu & Slim Burna (Prod. Young D)

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With Young D on the boards, Bobby Press calls upon the services of JayRu and Slim Burna for this club-ready new jam titled Some More.

DJ Bobby Press – Some More f. JayRu & Slim Burna (Prod. Young D)

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