DjeliISaysDjeliTells: Angelique Kidjo

Angelique Kidjo, New Album, New Tour

CultureMob surmises that she is the nu-nu Miriam Makeba, the female Fela, and now with allegations like that on her side, I must take a listen to Angelique Kidjo.

She'll run through D.C. in March, so if the hallabaloo is true, we must prepare we must prepare.\\

Take a listen aqui.

ohhhhhhh SNAP! waxpoetics' Africa issue just dropped!!

Who's Estatic McStatic!!?

Ooh! Me! Me! Guess who's on the cover of this issue of waxpoetics???? FELA! WHOOOOOOOOOO!

Okay. woosah. I'm good now. A bright spot in a very heavy day. A moment to just "be beautifully, stunning-ly Black"*

Carry on.

*POST SCRIPT

Feelin' creative-like. Might go start BB-poeticizing again... (every once in a while I hit these let'swritesomepoetry! streaks. this has been one such season. may not leave the light of my ol' Blackberry--and now iPod--but i got it out, right?)

Reel 'Round Town | JAN 2010 in DMV so far...

>>"Music is the Weapon" @ Sankofa Cafe, 1/3 :: 6p

>> "Jazz in the District" @ BloomBars, 1/6

"Garbage Dreams" from ITVS & Community Cinema DC @ Busboys & Poets, 1/24

• Fred Haas signing of The Assassination of Fred Hampton @ Sankofa, 1/31, 3pm