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From superstars to tribal dancers, thousands of African artists are celebrating their troubled continent's culture and potential in an epic festival - and looking back at what they've accomplished and squandered in four decades of freedom from colonial rule.

Obama's roots give him a unique capacity to transform American relations with Africa during his coming visit On July 10, one very important descendant of black Africa will make a triumphant return to the motherland.

Tiong Hiew King, founder of giant Asian logging conglomerate Rimbunan Hijau, a company accused of systematically stripping the "paradise" forests of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands Environment groups around the world have called for a billionaire businessman to be stripped of his knighthood after claiming that his fortune has ...

In this day and age, everything is game. Music, art, food, clothes, and just about anything can be fused, creating a different result.

As African leaders gather here Wednesday for a summit aime d at discussing peace and security across the continent, British humanitarian gr o up Oxfam International said over 1.4 million people have been forced to flee their homes so far this year as a result of sign ificantly increasing violence in DR Congo, Sudan and Somalia.

The London African Festival was a nice idea, and the main events promised much: I was looking forward to hearing the Cameroonian diva Sally Nyolo, whose CD Beti is a most beguiling evocation of rural life.

A young Jeilan Batu used to spend his days in Africa wondering "Will I die today, or will I live?" He was running, always it seemed, from the sporadic gunfire, the street warfare of ethnic and tribal wars, first in Ethiopia where he grew up, then over the past seven years in Nairobi, Kenya.

It was one of President Mwai Kibaki's cannier moves. His citizens had spent the night gathered around television sets, weeping with joy at the victory of this son of the soil.

In the early 1960s, Babatunde Olatunji was the face of African music in America.

THIS REVIEW REFERENCES THAT CONTENT AND IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN. It's tempting, in our cell phone-drenched society, to pine for simpler days-a time when Twitter was what you heard in the trees, Blackberrys were what you picked from the bushes and blogs were the noises your stomach made when it was hungry.

Push James Giacomo Lecce on any topic and he gently shushes you. "Ahhh, pazienza, pazienza," he says in Italian, his voice slowed by age and Parkinson's disease, his pale hands, still strong, patting down the air.

Next weekend Boulder will be treated to a music festival unlike any other when ZimFest 2009 hits the Flatirons.

The Paris Museum has announced a Tarzan exhibition for the summer. The Musee du Quai Branly is set to expose some of the more ludicrous misrepresentations of Africa in Western society through the unlikely juxtaposing of comic, TV and films of Tarzan.

Increased airwave chatter indicates some al-Qaida members may be moving from Pakistan hideouts to Somalia and Yemen, U.S. intelligence officials said.

Al Qaeda operatives are leaving the battle zones along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and heading for Somalia and Yemen, where they have set up training camps, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

Last time, I ended my column about the response to my response to the E3 2007 Resident Evil 5 trailer by stating that I had decided to refrain from further comment until I'd gotten the opportunity to play the final game and speak with its producer, Jun Takeuchi .

A French museum is devoting an exhibition to Tarzan, writes Angelique Chrisafis.

We switched up our selection process a little bit this week along with the types of wagers we would use.

'THE EASE and undone sophistication of our lifestyle and personality...and this captured in clothing is what we can share with the World.' this is how Peter Elias describes the philosophy or mantra of his annual Resort Collections.

Experts call them "lost crops" if they haven't been studied enough and developed to their full potential.