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On this page, we offer you in loose order links to articles, documentaries, music and more on histories of Lusophone and Anglophone Africa we find interesting enough to share with you.
Feel free to let us know what we missed.
Documentaries
Black Man's Land: 3-part documentary on Kenya's history
Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hge-VqoYEEw
Episode 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxR-u7y-SFg
Episode 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxkdJ7J3Rs
five-part documentary series that traces pre-slavery roots of Afro-Brazilians and the contributions Africans made to Brazil
African Pantheons and the Orishas: Crash Course World Mythology #11
A Kenyan village where men are banned (DW documentary)
Music
The Gnawa music of Morocco
Congolese Rhumba
Fela Kuti: The Father of Afrobeat (Part 1)
Fela Kuti: The Father of Afrobeat (Part 2)
Further reading on literature
Lizzy Attree: Reclaiming Africa's stolen histories through fiction
Further reading on histories
It’s impossible to study African history without understanding how much colonialism set it back - Quartz Africa
A brief history of slavery - an interactive account by The New York Times Magazine
More on West African mythology
The story of Vanilla
The Swahili Coast and Indian Ocean Trade
Thinking the Archipelago: Africa’s Indian Ocean Islands
Dance
Kizomba is one of the most popular genres of dance and music originating from Angola. It is a derivative of semba, with a mix of Kilapanda and Angolan Merengue, and sung generally in Portuguese. It is music with a romantic flow. It was the Kimbundu name for a dance in Angola as early as 1894.
Kizomba....just watch how it's done....
Kizomba - the slightly less steamy version
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