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Food & Drink, Restaurant Reviews, Dec 12, 2012
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Senegalese soul food shines at Badou

The west side meets West Africa (with some Mississippi Delta thrown in) at Badou Diakhate's eponymous restaurant
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Badou Senegalese Cuisine, Badou Diakhate, Badara "Badou" Diakhate, Ruby's Garfield Park, Paula Jones, Senegal, Lake Michigan College, Northwestern University, Chez Violette, Yassa, yassa djen, diby yaap, bissap, thiebou djen, jollof rice, mafe, boulettes, Recommended

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 23, 2012
12 O'Clock Track: Karantamba, "Sama Yai"

A 1984 burner from a previously unissued album of primo mbalax by Senegambian band Karantamba
- by Peter Margasak
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Karantamba, Ndigal, Senegal, mbalax, Teranga Beat, Bai Janha, Sama Yai, 12 O'Clock Track

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Dec 1, 2011
Muntu Dance Theatre's "Spice It Up"

Nearly 40-year-old dance troupe combines traditional flavors
- by Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago, Idy Ciss, wolof, Amaniyea Payne, West Africa, Mali, lamba, bougarabou, jola, Senegal, Reggie Wilson, Diedre Dawkins, Kwame Opare

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 31, 2010
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Saint Louis Blues

Dyana Gaye's Senegalese musical "Saint Louis Blues" and Alla Kovgan and David Hinton's "Nora" about Zimbabwean dancer-choreographer Nora Chipaumire screen tonight in the Black Harvest Film Festival.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Dance, Dyana Gaye, Ousmene, Senegal, Jacques Demy, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Alla Kovgan, David Hinton, Nora, Zimbabwe, Nora Chipaumire, dance, Black Harvest, film festival, Gene Siskel, Film Center, Sundance, Un Transport En Commun, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 6, 2010
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The Upright Man

Robin Shuffield's 2006 documentary "Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man," about the Marxist leader of Burkina Faso, and Djibril Diop Mambety's Senegalese dramatic short "The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun" screen Thursday 5/6 in the Black World Cinema series.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Burkina Faso, Upper Volta, France, Senegal, Marxist, Thomas Sankara, Upright Man, documentary, Robin Shuffield, Djibril Diop Mambety, The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun, Black World Cinema, ICE Theaters, Chatham 14, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 9, 2010
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Moolaadé and My Daughter the Terrorist

Ousmane Sembene's Burkina Faso drama "Moolaade" and Beate Arnestad's Sri Lankan documentary "My Daughter the Terrorist" screen Tuesday 3/9 in the College of DuPage's Women's Rights Day Film Festival.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, Ousmane Sembene, Moolaade, Beate Arnestad, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, My Daughter the Terrorist, College of DuPage, Women's Rights Day, Film Festival, Senegal, Burkina Faso, female circumcision, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 5, 2009
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I Bring What I Love

Black World Cinema presents a discounted preview screening of "Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love" a day before the documentary about the iconic Senegalese singer and activist opens for a weeklong run at Chatham 14.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Youssou N'Dour, Senegal, World Music, Islam, I Bring What I Love, Chatham 14, Black World Cinema, Africa, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 8, 2009
Baaba Maal: a Q&A, a short set, and another new direction

Senegalese singer Baaba Maal, who'll answer questions and play a short acoustic set on Saturday at the Chicago Cultural Center, changes course yet again on his new album.
- by Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Free Shit, Post No Bills, Swag, Baaba Maal, Television, Senegal, African music, Brazilian Girls, Nomad Soul, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Adrienne Samuels, Ebony Magazine, Songlines Magazine, United Nations Development Programme, Halpulaar, Old Town School of Folk Music

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 5, 2009
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Black World Cinema
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Black World Cinema, Wrestling Ground, L'Appel des Arenes, Chatham, Senegal, Cheikh Ndiaye, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 2, 2009
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Blood money

A wronged woman returns to her village for revenge in Djibril Diop Mambety's Senegalese satire of colonialism "Hyenas," screening tonight in the Black World Cinema series at Chatham 14.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Colonialism, Senegal, Djibril Diop Mambety, Hyenas, Joanthan Rosenbaum, Touki Bouki, Black World Cinema, Chatham 14, Floyd Webb, The Search for Count Dante, John Keehan, Dan Kelly, The Visit, Swiss, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 28, 2008
Did you even read the column you wrote?

Mary Mitchell and Carol Slezak should have reread their own columns before publishing them.
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: News, News Bites, Mary Mitchell, Carol Slezak, Oscar Pistorius, International Association of Athletics Federations, Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, Souleymane Jules Diop, Court of Arbitration for Sport, Olympic Games

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The west side meets West Africa (with some Mississippi Delta thrown in) at Badou Diakhate's eponymous restaurant

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A 1984 burner from a previously unissued album of primo mbalax by Senegambian band Karantamba

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Nearly 40-year-old dance troupe combines traditional flavors

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Dyana Gaye's Senegalese musical "Saint Louis Blues" and Alla Kovgan and David Hinton's "Nora" about Zimbabwean dancer-choreographer Nora Chipaumire screen tonight in the Black Harvest Film Festival.

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Robin Shuffield's 2006 documentary "Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man," about the Marxist leader of Burkina Faso, and Djibril Diop Mambety's Senegalese dramatic short "The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun" screen Thursday 5/6 in the Black World Cinema series.

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Ousmane Sembene's Burkina Faso drama "Moolaade" and Beate Arnestad's Sri Lankan documentary "My Daughter the Terrorist" screen Tuesday 3/9 in the College of DuPage's Women's Rights Day Film Festival.

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Black World Cinema presents a discounted preview screening of "Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love" a day before the documentary about the iconic Senegalese singer and activist opens for a weeklong run at Chatham 14.

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Senegalese singer Baaba Maal, who'll answer questions and play a short acoustic set on Saturday at the Chicago Cultural Center, changes course yet again on his new album.

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A wronged woman returns to her village for revenge in Djibril Diop Mambety's Senegalese satire of colonialism "Hyenas," screening tonight in the Black World Cinema series at Chatham 14.

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Mary Mitchell and Carol Slezak should have reread their own columns before publishing them.

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