Via Afropop.
Link to the story.
Youssou N’Dour, Angelique Kidjo, the United Nations Foundation, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, and other project partners premiered the powerful film “Africa Live: The Roll Back Malaria Concert” at the United Nations Wednesday evening March 29th. The film features rousing performances a year ago in Dakar Senegal by an all star Afropop lineup–Youssou N’Dour, Baaba Maal, Seun Kuti (son of Fela) with Egypt 80 and guest artists Tony Allen and Manu Dibango, Tinariwen, Corneille, Tiken Jah Fakoly with fearless Senegalese rapper Didier Awadi.
PBS will air the film on thursday April 6th at 8pm. check out www.pbs.org for information.
Watch/listen to the segment ‘Fighting Malaria in Africa’, there is also a transcipt from the show that aired in January.
Y’all get all the good things. I hope that they raise enough money to fight this deadly disease. Great post as usual.
Thanks, will definitely make an effort to check it out.
That’s one mighty musical line up I wish I had the privilege of seeing performing live!! Love all their music as indivudual artistes & seeing them all on stage would just make me say “Now I can die a Happy Man!”:)
I lok forward to the day we’ll have a cure for malaria. Too many deaths & too much time off product work/schooling in Africa bcoz of it.
I watched the PBS special and it was just heart-rending.
It was very in-depth; the concert with Youssou and Angelique (I’ve never really like her rendition of Malaika!), Sachs (breakfasting at Norfolk), and the Meru Chief with the families of sick and dying children…. it was something.
I hope a lot of good comes out of such an effort. It is sad, though, that our politicians do not put any effort in into creating lasting solutions to our problems – we have to have foreigners care about our problems more than we, the sufferers, do.
Whis, it was very indepth, thoughcoz of interruptions, i missed the concert bit.
, i did see the Meru chief with the families of the sick children. Very sad.