Salone Olympic Love
by Boima Tucker
Check for me on Stage with Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, longside Pupa Bajah!!! Shout out Ola Sesay! About these ads
Categories: Music • Tags: Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Pupa Bajah, Sierra Leone
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Without Money No Family NY Edition
by Boima Tucker
African in New York is here! And I’m also proud to present my first every music video, the NY edition of “Without Money No Family.” I shot and edited it myself, taking some footage from the original clip, I’m happy to see the final result but anxious to hear what people think about it. Buy African in New York as a partial album on iTunes, and at a few other digital retailers. The full album will be a physical version with […]
Categories: Music, Releases, Video • Tags: African in NY, Chief Boima, Dutty Artz, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sorie Kondi, Without Money No Family
Lone Stars Mix
by Boima Tucker
I just uploaded a new mix to Ghetto Bassquake and Akwaaba Music. I also made a commentary on the political and economic context this music was made in at Africa is a Country, and Cluster Mag (If you’ve been missing my posts over at Cluster Mag, I’m doing a series on my travels in West Africa this summer. I already touched on Ghana and Liberia, and will end with my reflections on my return visit to Sierra Leone.) This mix […]
Categories: Mixes, Music, Releases, Thought • Tags: akwaaba music, Cluster Mag, Ellen Johsnon-Sirleaf, Gbema, Ghana, Hipco, Liberia, Nobel Peace Prize, Sierra Leone
A Rainy Sunday Morning
by Boima Tucker
I had a real fun time as a guest on my DJ partner and roommate Lamin Fofana‘s Sunday morning radio show this past weekend. We laughed the whole way through the rainy morning, and when Lamin would stop suddenly and announce, “on a serious note, there is flash flooding in…” I’d be rolling on the floor. I can’t switch gears that fast. But I mostly wanted to share this because I was able to play a lot of music that […]
Categories: Music, Tha Homies • Tags: africa, Chief Boima, Dance, Dub, Dutty Artz, Ghana, Give it Up for Champagne, Lamin Fofana, Liberia, Party, Sierra Leone, Sunday Mornings
Voices of the People
by Boima Tucker
My friends from We Own TV put together a trailer of footage from their summer workshop in Lungi, Sierra Leone. When Banker first showed me the beginning clip in his studio, the beauty of the shots and their emotional power gave me the shivers. While infrastructure development is underway, and stories of returnees from Europe and the US start to surface, I think that this kind of initiative to promote public expression from all sectors of society, will be what […]
Categories: Development, Video • Tags: Sierra Leone, We Own TV
We Own TV Launch
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
Salone Surviving & Shining
by Boima Tucker
If you have a half hour check out the documentary called Lost Freetown on issues of development in Sierra Leone (Double-click on the video because embedding was disabled): more about “Lost Freetown – Sierra Leone“, posted with vodpod I was linked to it through Twitter by my friend Banker White last night. Banker has a great project he’s in the process of starting called We Own TV. Watch an introductory film to the project by Black Nature of the Refugee […]
Categories: Tha Homies, Thought, Video • Tags: Bubu Music, Development, Dutty Artz, Eco-Tourism, Environment, Green Revolution, Recession Rap Jams, Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone, We Own TV
The Highlife: Thank You America
by Boima Tucker
Now let’s celebrate! Thursday night at the 2nd The Highlife Party. And really in the spirit of this time, this is The High Life! This time with guests DJ Sogui So Good, Sierra Leonean Reggae Singer Khady Black and the residents Chief Boima and Shawn Dub. Artist Susu Attar will be projecting videos. Located at the Tunnel Top 601 Bush Street in SF. Obama songs throughout the night!
Categories: Gigs • Tags: Khady Black, obama, Sierra Leone, Sogui So Good, Susu Attar, The Highlife
It’s Bigger than… Coupe Decale.
by Boima Tucker
(Douk Saga from his myspace page) Big ups to Rachel Emmet for creating an English language Coupe Decale Wikipedia article. And putting out the challenge to the Anglo-phones to spread real knowledge about Coupe Decale. A trailer for an upcoming documentary on the subject was sent to Ghetto Bassquake. I wanted to point to those and respond to Rachel‘s request with some ideas of my own. I saw a great slide show on the contemporary politics of Ivory Coast, especially […]
Categories: Music, Thought • Tags: Civil War, Coupe Decale, Football/Soccer, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone
Trans-Atlantic Merende Style
by Boima Tucker
Not to slack too much over here, I just posted this over at Ghetto Bassquake. Double posting is that allowed? It seems a good time to finally post on a connection that I had made, which may be superficial, but remains an exciting discovery for me to make. The past couple Sierra Leone parties/events that I’ve been to, I noticed a fast, double-timed drum music, programmed on synthesizers, that for some reason I’ve been associating with the Mende, but I […]
Categories: Music • Tags: Gaga, Mende, Merengue, Republica Domincana, Sierra Leone
