Nigeria: Femi Pedro At 70 – Between Fate and Diligence

[This Day] According to Edward Morgan Forster, English novelist, and short story writer, “failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in th…

Cape Verde: Elida Almeida’s Trimphant Return to New York

[Afropop] Elida Almeida is a major player in a new generation of Cabo Verdean female singers who have risen, quite gloriously, in the wake of Cesaria Évora’s storied career. Évora, the “barefoot diva,” grew up in poverty, singing for tips in …