KONTINUASOM is a film about the Cape Verdean culture and social reality.It is a documentary that takes us to a journey through Cape Verdean music.
Listen to some songs
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This social experiment was carried out using hidden cameras in a townhouse complex in Johannesburg. Don’t condone violence by doing nothing. If you or anyone around you is experiencing domestic abuse please call for help.
Bouncing Cats is a story of one man’s attempt to create a better life for the children of Uganda using the unlikely tool of hip-hop with a focus on b-boy culture and breakdancing.
This Breakdance Project Uganda (B.P.U.) is a project that could empower, rehabilitate and heal the community by teaching youth about b-boy culture. The film features narration by Common and interviews with Mos Def, Will-I-Am, and K’Naan.
Watch the trailer.
http://www.vimeo.com/11938213
Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited, (aka HARYOU), was a social activism organization in the 6o’s. The group worked to increase opportunities in education and employment for young blacks in Harlem.
There also was a music group, called the The Har-You Percussion Group and they made an album, called Songs From The Ghetto Youth. A great album featuring a mix of funky bass, heavy drums, burning horn lines and soulful vocals.
Listen what these eleven 16- to 19-year-old boys did under the guidance of Jamaican-born percussionist Montegro Joe.
Welcome to the party
Today is Earth Day. Time to listen to this great environmental reggae song called Global Warning from Steelpulse (2007)
Alsarah is a Brooklyn based singer, songwriter originally from Sudan. She combines old Sudanese melodies with a contemporary, often hip hop feel. Alsarah performs in quite a few different styles of traditional music from Africa’s rich diasporan history. She sings aghani al banat, or girls’ music, which plays as an interactive soundtrack to the many festive events in Sudan. Her last song, Vote, about the elections in Sudan.
Vote! featuring Oddisee 
And the track Qisas tayrah (flying stories) is music fusion sufi chant. A collaboration between Alsarah and American producer Cristos. The video clip takes you on a trip from the mystics of Hamad El Neel in Omdurman to a Washington DC graffiti wall and New York City groove.
Qisas tayrah (flying stories) 
Gil Scott-Heron on of the inspirators of rap music. One of his best known songs is The bottle from the album Winter in America (1974). A classic!
The song contains hip hop elements such as rapping, cultural and political references, heavy drumbeats and a minimalist production. The song’s theme uses alcohol, or the bottle, as a metaphor for ghetto life and its long-term effects on its users.
Watch the video.
How are you? What’s up? How’s things? Happy? Sad? Angry? Ok? Use the Chiline remixer to express your mood.
The Childine remixer is a campaign to encourage children to express their emotions and to position Childline as the place they can do this freely with immediate online support for those children needing help.
Mix your mood on the howyoufeelinremixer.com.
Watch 
Over the years, South Africa has been blighted by crime and violence. SHOUT out against crime and start the battle to make South Africa a safer place for everyone.
SHOUT is the brainchild of the South African musicians Danny K and Kabelo who embarked on launching the initiative after the tragic and untimely death of South African legend, Lucky Dube who died due to a senseless act of crime.
Check out Danny K, Kabelo and 37 other top South African celebrities as they Shout against crime.
Shout a cover version of the 1985 hit song Shout by Tears for Fears.
Throughout the world people make boring work creative by turning it into music. Here you can listen to four postal workers in the University of Ghana post office. They use music to make the work of canceling stamps less boring.
This particular piece is a field recording that was recorded by ethnomusicologist James Koetting in 1975. The music was created by the postal workers canceling stamps The piece sounds like percussion instruments and whistling. The whistled part is from the hymn Bompata, by the Ghanaian composer W.J. Akyeampong (b. 1900).
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