• Chapter VIII: Are the Kids Gonna be Alright?
    Jun 28 2024

    Tradition suggests that the older you get the wiser you become. Of what use, then, is it to listen to the kids? Especially when it comes to steering kids through their shattered dreams. Dreams shattered by society.

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    1 Std. und 1 Min.
  • Chapter VII: Hips Don't Lie
    May 3 2024

    We continue with examining the steady spread of Rumba in Australia; partly because of the dancing freedom it hypnotises listeners into.

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    42 Min.
  • Chapter VI: Brave New Afro-pop
    Mar 31 2024

    Aboard the trans-Atlantic Slave ships from Africa, Rumba music was a stowaway. At their final destinations, the African traditional music absorbed Caribbean and Spanish culture. In the 1930s Rumba then found its way back to its place of birth, through the absorption and reinterpretation of Cuban Records in Congo. The music is still on the move across Africa, and Europe. Now Australia asks for some.

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    49 Min.
  • Chapter V: No Longer at Ease
    Mar 10 2024

    In this part 2, on African cuisine, owner of a the popular street food joint, juggles to absorb the popularity of his inventive menu, and the booming interest it generates

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    37 Min.
  • Chapter IV: Dinner with the Homesick Africans
    Feb 12 2024

    We trace the path taken by one African Australian to construct homemade recipes in a country that refuses importation of exotic ingredients. Even though the general public loves the food, officials erect obstacles to stop the African from sharing his cuisines.

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    44 Min.
  • Chapter III: Give the drummer some
    Jan 5 2024

    What's behind the bulging interest in African drumming amongst Australian women. I attend a class to find out; and also talk to An Australian who triumphed against the clutches of malaria in West Africa, just to mount what has become a decades-old passion as a Master Drummer.

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    40 Min.
  • Chapter II: Go back to wherever you came from
    Dec 8 2023

    At the Festival watching a film on police brutality on Blacks causes us to reflect on otherness and its trauma.

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    44 Min.
  • Chapter I: Good Hand-balling
    Nov 24 2023

    In this episode we inquire how multiculturalism is tracking, 10 years since the launch of the African Festival in Melbourne. But then the question becomes a hot-potato.

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    1 Std. und 2 Min.