by Boima Tucker
May 28th starts Descendants United, Thursdays at Luka’s in Oakland. Aebl Dee, Shawn Dub, DJ Refusenik, and I will be the resident DJ’s. Our inaugural guests will be Jennifer Johns, R&B Soul singer out of Oakland, and Geko Jones, Wobbly Bass Latin Roots DJ out of the Dutty Artz camp in New York. About these ads
Categories: Gigs • Tags: Be There or Be Square, Oakland
by Boima Tucker
Currently, I’m reading a series of lectures by Chinua Achebe called Home and Exile. The first lecture, “My Home Under Imperial Fire,” is about the legacy of colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on “African Literature.” He shows how certain texts, which are often held up as shining examples of books about Africa, are mired by an ugly legacy. He goes into an anecdote about his experience with a book called Mister Johnson’s Countrymen which becomes an awakening for him […]
Categories: Thought • Tags: Chinua Achebe, Colonialism, Criticism, Literature, Nigeria
by Boima Tucker
This dude is pumping out mixes like every hour, but I had to point to one more. He’s featured a couple more of my tracks, and we’re soon to start doing some stuff together so keep on the look out. But, my favorite part about the post he did at Discobelle about this mix is the very funny, tracklist and song descriptions. He says, “Chief Boima is an odd but grand cat with a rich and well maintained coat… san […]
Categories: Music • Tags: African House, Chief Boima, H.I.V.I.P., mixes, South Africa, spoek mathambo
by Boima Tucker
The Highlife is stopping by Little Baobab on Saturday May 30th. I’m telling you now, get there EARLY! It will fill up. Music starts at 10pm. The regular crew, Shawn Dub, Be Brown and I are working on an after hours. Keep an eye out for more info. Featured this time will be special guest Geko Jones from the Dutty Artz crew. The theme of the night is Champeteando! Geko has inspired me with his mixes of bassey latin dance […]
Categories: Gigs, Music, Tha Homies, Video • Tags: Champeta, geko jones, Little Baobab, The Highlife
by Boima Tucker
Check out this mix by my buddy Spoek Mathambo in South Africa that features two tracks I’ve worked on. He has a great blog, Sdotx, here. TRACKLIST for Devil House Mafias 2 SLUSH PUPPY KIDS – WE THE BEST DJ MUJAVA – PHELINDABA BANANA CLIPZ – PUSH AM (LEFT, RIGHT) BAKSTINA – DASHBOARD LOVE EASTWEST – PSCHADELIC DISCO THE EXTRA T’S – FLASH BOOGIE ACSLATER – HELLO (MOLEKE MBEMBE REMIX) DJ SPYRO – SPYRO SPESH DJ MURKZ – WWOW DUTTY […]
Categories: Blog Business, Music • Tags: banana clipz, blogs, mixes, South Africa, spoek mathambo
by Boima Tucker
James Baldwin is one of my heroes. His book Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone is one of my favorites. In 1963 he took a trip to San Francisco to analyze the deeper aspects of the Black community in a city that professes (still to this day) to be a stronghold of progressive thought, but can’t always deliver on that promise. more about “Take This Hammer – DIVA at SF State“, posted with vodpod This documentary is amazing […]
Categories: Thought, Uncategorized, Video • Tags: African-American Community, James Baldwin, Redevelopment Agency, san francisco
by Boima Tucker
My Bay Area Salone family is having a launch party for We Own TV on May 14th. I mentioned the project on a previous post, and wanted to make sure the word gets spread as wide as possible about this project. The release info is here. The launch event will be held from 6:30pm – 8:30pm at: Bay Area Video Coalition 2727 Mariposa Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco CA 94110 RSVP Requested. CLICK TO RSVP >
Categories: Development, Technology, Video • Tags: Sierra Leone, We Own TV
