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Guinea

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Congolese Cocoa Headed to Theo Chocolate

    ​A ship loaded with Congolese cocoa beans bound for Theo Chocolate is now sailing east across the Pacific Ocean. Theo Chocolate has been working closely with the Eastern Congo Initiative since 2010 to develop a cocoa crop quality improvement plan to aid the troubled region's economic developm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Cyrus Vance - Ex-Seattle Attorney, Now N.Y. DA - Under Fire for Fumbling Strauss-Kahn Case

    Time will tell.​Six weeks ago, former Seattle attorney and now Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. was triumphantly announcing the sexual-assault indictment of 62-year-old International Monetary Fund manager Dominique Strauss-Kahn. DSK, as he's called by the media, was perp-walked f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Tonight: Etran Finatawa at Neumos, Alpha Yaya Diallo at Jazz Alley, Wolf Parade at the Showbox

    ​Etran Finatawa, with Baba Maraire & Nhaka Yedu feat. Lora Chiorah. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $15. I'm guessing you will probably have very few opportunities to see a nomad culture brought to life onstage, and you'll have even fewer chances to see two nomad tribes come together ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 21, 2010

    Alpha Yaya Diallo

    ​Etran Finatawa, with Baba Maraire & Nhaka Yedu feat. Lora Chiorah. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $15. I'm guessing you will probably have very few opportunities to see a nomad culture brought to life onstage, and you'll have even fewer chances to see two nomad tribes come together ... More >>

  • Music

    July 21, 2010

    The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

    ​Etran Finatawa, with Baba Maraire & Nhaka Yedu feat. Lora Chiorah. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $15. I'm guessing you will probably have very few opportunities to see a nomad culture brought to life onstage, and you'll have even fewer chances to see two nomad tribes come together ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2009

    Toubab Krewe

    ​Etran Finatawa, with Baba Maraire & Nhaka Yedu feat. Lora Chiorah. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $15. I'm guessing you will probably have very few opportunities to see a nomad culture brought to life onstage, and you'll have even fewer chances to see two nomad tribes come together ... More >>

  • Music

    September 30, 2009

    The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

    ​Etran Finatawa, with Baba Maraire & Nhaka Yedu feat. Lora Chiorah. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $15. I'm guessing you will probably have very few opportunities to see a nomad culture brought to life onstage, and you'll have even fewer chances to see two nomad tribes come together ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Last Night: Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars at Neumos

    Reuben Koroma of Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars There's something strangely gratifying about seeing a band of refugees play a successful gig in the United States. It doesn't matter how many people show up or what the group even sings about -- in the back of your mind (or at least in the back of my ... More >>

  • News

    May 27, 2009

    Seattle’s Own Municipal Idol

    Adam Lambert’s got nothing on Seattle’s eccentric cast of city council candidates.

  • Music

    October 1, 2008

    REVERBfest at Hattie’s Hat

    Ian Moore, Herman Jolly, Sweet Potatoes ...

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    REVERBfest Lineup: Hattie's Hat

    Ian Moore, Herman Jolly, Sweet Potatoes ...

  • Music

    September 24, 2008

    Q&A: Mickey Hart

    The drummer’s tireless devotion to world percussion proves there’s life after the Dead.

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2008

    Music of Africa at Hidmo

    The drummer’s tireless devotion to world percussion proves there’s life after the Dead.

  • Music

    September 3, 2008

    Raiders of Lost Art

    A fresh wave of globally minded music Web sites will broaden your horizons.

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2008

    Seattle International Children’s Festival

    A fresh wave of globally minded music Web sites will broaden your horizons.

  • News

    May 7, 2008

    I’m (Not) With Busey

    Jeff Swanson looks, acts, and talks like Mr. Joshua. But the man you bought drinks for at the club ain’t Gary Busey.

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2008

    The Weekend Preview!

    Jeff Swanson looks, acts, and talks like Mr. Joshua. But the man you bought drinks for at the club ain’t Gary Busey.

  • Calendar

    February 20, 2008

    Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars

    Saturday, February 23

  • Calendar

    August 15, 2007

    West African Music Festival

    Festival

  • Diversions

    December 27, 2006

    Best-Of Edition

    A couple of 2006's ripest interrogatory plums.

  • Diversions

    September 20, 2006

    Lord Zoltar, 1950–2006

    Remembering a killer zebra regarded as the Idi Amin of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

  • Music

    July 12, 2006

    Songs of Freedom

    How the Refugee All Stars of Sierra Leone made civil war disappear.

  • Arts

    July 12, 2006

    Sweet and Low: A Family Story

    How a sugar substitute created a fortune and destroyed a family.

  • Music

    June 14, 2006

    Brave New World

    Amadou & Mariam's modern inspirations.

  • Arts

    April 19, 2006

    Artists, Go Home

    Federal regulations threaten to limit Seattle's exposure to foreign performers.

  • Film

    February 22, 2006

    Feb. 22-March 1, 2006

    This week's specialty screenings and venues.

  • Food

    May 25, 2005

    One Man's Meat

    This week's specialty screenings and venues.

  • Food

    February 16, 2005

    Does Sport Have Game?

    Pizza and burgers, surrounded by 1,500 flat-screen TVs.

  • Music

    May 5, 2004

    West Africa Social Club

    Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

  • Arts

    October 29, 2003

    Visual Arts Calendar

    Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

  • Arts

    October 22, 2003

    Visual Arts Calendar

    Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

  • Arts

    October 15, 2003

    Visual Arts Calendar

    Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

  • Arts

    October 8, 2003

    Visual Arts Calendar

    Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

  • Arts

    October 1, 2003

    Visual Arts Calendar

    Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

  • Arts

    September 24, 2003

    Portraits in Africa, Nexus Architecture + Connector IV

    Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

  • Music

    July 30, 2003

    Diamond Rich

    Bembeya Jazz revisit the golden age of Guinean pop.

  • Arts

    February 6, 2002

    Scent of the vest

    Breaking with standard practice, SAM's Africa exhibit vividly renders art in context.

  • Arts

    December 12, 2001

    Go West (or East), Young Woman

    Two new collections offer incredible travel stories.

  • News

    August 29, 2001

    Dance picks

    Two new collections offer incredible travel stories.

  • Diversions

    January 12, 2000

    Perchance to dream

    Two new collections offer incredible travel stories.

  • Arts

    June 9, 1999

    It makes a village

    Tribal rhythms intersect with social justice.

  • News

    November 18, 1998

    A thousand words

    Tribal rhythms intersect with social justice.

  • News

    March 11, 1998

    Mad Meat

    We're just starting to learn how 'mad cow' diseases move through the food chain and what they can do to us.

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