VOA [Voice of America] Africa : September 28, 2019 05:00AM-06:00AM EDT

Closed captions transcript: 00:00:00 Kraft sector dropped sharply and orders in the category used as 00:00:03 a proxy for business investment edged down 2 tenths of 00:00:06 a percent the weakest showing since 00:00:08 a 1 point one percent drop in April this category has lagged for most of the year 00:00:12 likely reflecting fallout from President Trump's trade wars Ben Thomas Washington 00:00:17 for more on any of these stories please go to v.o.a. 00:00:20 News dot com In Washington I'm Jim Berto deal way news. 00:00:36 Hello everyone and welcome to News time in Africa your host Heather Maxwell 00:00:40 broadcasting Washington. Great show for you today marks 00:00:45 a new music to feature interviews a vintage piece from the archives and 00:00:50 a song of the week now for the features I've got traveling today 1st we go to 00:00:57 Mozambique where I was recently you're going to meet much to make song go 00:01:02 a traditional choke the musician who plays and he sings we visit him at his Azango 00:01:08 artist residency in my food bowl and then enjoy some live dance music in the dusty 00:01:13 streets of his hometown you need to set that comes up at about quarter past the 00:01:18 hour and then the 2nd feature takes us to the city town actually hamlet of only 00:01:24 $450.00 residents of Harry met in Holland Dutch Country journalist Graeme 00:01:30 Posthumus attended the annual Africa festival there in July and tells us all out 00:01:35 there including excerpts of live music interviews and 00:01:39 a brief history of that festival that comes at the back half of the hour and then 00:01:44 there is Song of the week oh yeah it's called down big and it's a new song by 00:01:49 a veteran Greil from Mali. Henri joins me in prison and we've 00:01:56 also got our vintage song by the golden voice of my Bierria 2 gay slow factors 00:02:03 music was 1st aired on music time in Africa in 1985 she was also interviewed at 00:02:09 that time in Liberia 00:02:10 a song play excerpts 5 to the interview along with one for all time greats the big 00:02:15 chunk you name Ok so there is of course more amazing music inside this hour so hey 00:02:22 let's just get to it from Sierra Leone here is the alternate already and said I'm 00:02:28 going to going tell your Labor Party instead. 00:06:02 Right that was said and I'm going to buy my wings from Freetown Hello everybody 00:06:06 this is how the Maxwell here at the top of music time in Africa now from Tampa 00:06:10 gonna hear is sunshine by our to be you are the sun. 00:06:55 Bringing. You this. 00:07:40 Was. 00:07:47 To bring. You. 00:08:09 The. 00:08:24 Best for You and I was the moment. You could get that trick. 00:08:33 Just. Well you remember. 00:08:40 The Bridge. 00:08:48 To. 00:09:15 Bring. You that is 00:09:17 a. Good 00:09:41 movie. 00:09:48 Yes Ok guys that was are to be is with sunshine at track off their $2900.00 sites. 00:09:56 If you like these guys and you want to see them and want to see what side 15 really 00:10:00 looks like get on my youtube page I was there June 2000 00:10:04 a. Watch music time in Africa on You Tube just interviews live performances 00:10:11 and also music videos get it all in one place on the music Time Enough For You Tube 00:10:18 channel. Now some more rock all here is superstar 00:10:25 Morris new 00:10:26 a single. This song is for those of you who have finally just. 00:10:33 Addict your true love has hurt you one too many times how Team sings My heart has 00:10:40 finally learned its lesson friends warn me but finally today it's time to forget. 00:11:19 A. 00:12:46 But. 00:13:05 Believe. It. 00:13:13 Or do you. Believe. 00:13:40 Me. 00:13:55 Ok music lovers this is how the Mets play and you just heard the team from more 00:14:00 rock called Now this next song is by Mike to May 1 of my featured artists today as 00:14:06 I mentioned earlier much you may is 00:14:08 a traditional chalky musician from Mozambique whom I met when I was in that 00:14:13 beautiful country last month the song is called cuckoo t.t.t. 00:14:18 And my interview with much of my follows so settle in Mozambique and mood the song 00:14:25 explains in what's app message actually I got yesterday from him he says the 00:14:31 featured singer is Tino caught. T.t.t. 00:14:35 Means calm in this case home country is Kong people are more relaxed than life in 00:14:41 the city my traditional hometown is the best place to go and feel relaxed the 00:14:47 animals in the trees are very healthy hope one day I will go back and relax to go 00:14:53 to. 00:15:06 To. Get it. On the 00:15:13 Go To use the wrong. Been able to buy 00:15:19 a. Ticket. To. 00:15:31 Go. To to. To to. 00:15:47 See one of those things. You. Need to go. 00:16:00 To the menu button and bam bad news about. The need to 00:16:07 call Obama but on. The road it's not 00:16:12 a bad thing is the number. You 00:16:21 . Know. 00:16:30 Nobody watches the news. 00:16:36 Cold but. 00:17:17 The way. 00:17:40 To. 00:17:46 Go All right hey everybody that was much goal with Kuku. A track from his 00:17:53 2017 album condé I have 00:17:56 a Maxwell and now this is my interview with much you may in Mozambique. 00:18:04 Maybe his maturity is on when I and my children speak and the musician. 00:18:11 I come from today kind of traditional music of it's sort of it's again it's maybe. 00:18:17 It's 00:18:17 a kind of not really. We're going to look for Martin. Can you give some neat. Difference 00:18:26 is the king is 00:18:27 a great joke musically it's Commissioner you're. Wearing your. Residence is your 00:18:34 home it's recording studio equipment an example which is your last name sound go 00:18:38 artist residency so tell me about this place when I was traveling being on 00:18:45 a race that is sort of 00:18:46 a place I had I was missing something like Ok I can feel something like home where 00:18:53 my friends can count on me and then we stay together we do care that we recall so 00:18:57 then they started to to have these ideas of meeting the house you know like 00:19:04 a kid not going to make something small if you could have 00:19:06 a lot of rain from them just for the 1st time he got big by this place now is 00:19:11 a big impact and I can feel how much he's involved and so what is your role behind 00:19:17 the mixer here or do you actually also work as the sound engineer while they say 00:19:23 a residency finally says let's record something because this is 00:19:26 a recording studio. We're still here we're 00:19:33 rehearsing we're recording and we need this studio it's really for that so people 00:19:39 come here and we record sales we feel. I lead 00:19:45 a lot of things I could create lost and so you know most of them are so we and what 00:19:52 they decided to do is that they sort of continue the same stories. We learn how to 00:19:57 play and it was no proficiency just playing on the street and there was no to 00:20:02 influence the young generation you know it's useful to do it we just regular 00:20:06 mistreated and we just rehashing strange then they know. They become need to need 00:20:13 etc because I motivate 00:20:14 a lot of skates didn't go to school so I ended up going creating 00:20:19 a growing jets that in the end young kids can travel even to Europe just to 00:20:25 discover the wall you know because but history by once. Did genius when I did my 00:20:31 face trip to Europe and it opened my mind to some a sitting duck 00:20:35 a should do this this also for the young people because having it so beautiful when 00:20:39 you can share you don't just push for yourself you Sheriff. You know you saw I do 00:20:45 not see. Any houses inviting people to come. 00:20:56 What is the relationship between dance and music and choppy music. Down 00:21:03 Sunday to be. Played face years to be. Sure we 00:21:10 have. To mourn. Great to see. 00:21:20 You know playing and dancing scene and dancing in the lane you know so those 2 00:21:26 fields are together. So even though now you live in this area and it's close to the 00:21:33 world and it's. Contemporary Music you're still 00:21:37 a traditional guy at heart yet only you still wanted to be natural and not to our 00:21:42 esteemed Yeah it's. You know you say. 00:21:50 You know then you're doing for me you know. I'm going to do that I'm 00:21:55 a. Woman I'm out of the ability come up in the. 00:22:01 Cool All right a people that was much goal and have 00:22:06 a match while hanging out in Mozambique. Music. 00:22:13 You know 00:22:13 a lion for the live stream riot is 100. 915202200 00:22:22 you know. The news that. They choose to feel in Africa. 00:22:31 I did my numbers are gradual for 10 years or so for Mali you listen to music and 00:22:36 Africa got stuck to more contemporary traditional songs 1st from the Madagascar 00:22:43 are and. From the African Diaspora and. The people. There is 00:22:50 Song of the week with Kwame Oh Florry Kwame just popped in the studio for Song of 00:22:54 the week course of course of course always ready he's always ready All right so 00:22:59 here's the lovely sister group from Madagascar. 00:23:25 A. A. 00:23:35 A. A. 00:23:50 A. A 00:23:56 a. A. 00:24:10 A. 00:24:20 A. 00:24:31 A 00:24:31 a. A. A 00:24:40 . 00:25:05 A. 00:25:37 A. A. 00:25:47 A. 00:26:01 A. A 00:26:06 a. A. 00:26:22 All right that was a radio with 00:26:24 a track off there 2003 album ry on. The 00:26:35 Ghauri for the collective is 00:26:37 a group from Central America they've just released the sauce for Elba It's called 00:26:43 a bomb. In 2013 actually they were here at v.o.a. 00:26:47 While on tour for their 1st album I yell Hey you can watch that I'm 00:26:51 a youtube channel as well this song is one of my favorites from their new album is 00:26:56 called Why our way. 00:28:44 Oh well I would it would. 00:28:56 Make. 00:29:05 Me. 00:29:14 All right now it is time for Song of the week with Kwame a Kwame they have 00:29:20 a how are you I'm good how are you doing great all right so this song is called. 00:29:27 And it's by my Somalian singer of The Grio tradition it's 00:29:32 a brand new song and let's get into it and then we'll break it down and show Ok. 00:29:57 I am. Doing them 00:30:00 a. Candidate I'm going to get the moon. 00:30:16 Ok so this is Madama and she's singing and Barbara and you know I think that I 00:30:23 speak that language you actually do speak. Yes So what she's saying here basically 00:30:28 is you know war is bad and she's referring to the ethnic problems right now that 00:30:35 have only just recently been troubling Mali where there is still 00:30:38 a war between different ethnic groups as well as terrorism problems so she saying. 00:30:43 War is bad you know we've got to keep our old ancient traditions of being majestic 00:30:50 being royal being dignified and it war is beneath us she says she's definitely. 00:30:57 In the tradition the tradition for those who don't believe explain it to you and 00:31:04 how it affects the whole. Lifestyle so have 00:31:09 a All right well let's listen for 00:31:11 a minute more I'm holding. My 00:31:54 tongue is worse bad you know grills like you were as you were saying earlier saying 00:31:59 they're known for oral historians and so some sayings some plain musicians I 00:32:06 mean some play musical instruments some are just storytellers they used to be the 00:32:11 mouthpiece of the kings or anybody royal and now they still are but also. 00:32:18 Wealthy powerful people in general but they tend to tell the truth and they 00:32:23 remember they were mind people of their history and so modern by saying look this 00:32:28 isn't all Somalians this is not this is below us we should not be doing what she's 00:32:34 doing 00:32:34 a great job with it because the. Anguish 00:32:41 and the n.s.t. In her voice and by the same. Time it's 00:32:44 a good melody pushes you to listen let's listen some are actually going to. 00:32:51 Land. On m m m. M m. You. 00:33:01 Are. Going to. Kill 00:33:08 a. Stray 00:33:42 . That happened to lead guitar playing with the instrument 00:33:49 which is 00:33:50 a traditional guitar for you if the word Isn't that nice. To 00:34:01 say one country one ideology one of vision. 00:34:11 Beautiful Yeah. So that was with the song from Mali 00:34:18 I'm Heather Maxwell sense here for you 9 always and this was song. To number 00:34:25 you to Number One of the. 00:34:34 Music time in Africa. Keep it. 00:34:41 Hey everybody so we're moving into the 2nd half of the pro. Now beginning with this 00:34:45 beautiful song. On trial. 00:37:39 Right that was my Ron tried with the sacred to attract some brand new 2019 album 00:37:45 manga I met a Maxwell and now for our vintage song and sound bites from 00:37:51 a 1985 music time in Africa broadcast from Liberia here is singer for 2 00:37:58 cases are now she's known as the Princess with the golden voice to sing folk 00:38:04 music with Liberia's national cultural troupe from 978-2984 during the 00:38:11 Liberian civil war after that she lived in refugee camps and called the far end in 00:38:16 Guinea but she always continued her music career and boarded several albums and 00:38:21 then relocated to the United States in 1980 she remains heavily involved in the 00:38:26 u.s. 00:38:27 Now in several artistic projects organizations to this day here is fucked again for 00:38:33 . 00:38:43 Us. 00:38:58 But. 00:39:06 You see. On the. 00:39:12 News there with a troll a. Fish in 00:39:16 a cool. I love the show. 00:39:24 Along there were 00:39:25 a few. And. You can see full pole. 00:39:33 In the movies with back and. Like one of them in. 00:41:59 All right that was a big shock when a guy found Doogue 00:42:03 a flaw are our music time in Africa archive special the song title by the way means 00:42:08 if you're sleeping you should wake up if you're lying down you should get up. All 00:42:13 right I met your match well and next up my 2nd feature piece of the week meet 00:42:18 journalist Brahms Posthumus and he has this report from Holland. 00:42:30 To Heather and every one of the musical I'm an African team from. This is 00:42:36 a hamlet all 450 souls tucked away in green and very pleasant Dutch countryside 00:42:42 trees everywhere also around this beautiful stage where I'll be spending most of my 00:42:47 time. 00:43:16 That's just 00:43:17 a few of the 11 acts performed here this year. And many 00:43:24 others but how about a bit of history 1st because you may be wondering 00:43:28 a festival celebrating music from Africa in 00:43:31 a remote Dutch village How did that happen well here's your answer in 2 parts. 00:43:40 About this is that case lived in hammer for 5 years she tells me how some 60 years 00:43:46 ago 00:43:46 a Catholic priest got the entire village to build this open air theatre under the 00:43:52 trees where he could stage his annual passion play everybody helped out who is also 00:43:59 one of the festivals many volunteers more about them later. 00:44:10 So that's the theater bit but how did the music. Here Well here's part 2 of the 00:44:15 story featuring a doctor they do it's 00:44:18 a new. Bloke in is the festival's main program he worked as 00:44:22 a medical doctor in Cameroon in Tanzania and got bitten by the music bug back from 00:44:28 Africa or up his wife meat and that music box settled here and had no where he 00:44:33 started work as a g.p. 00:44:35 And then in 1909. 00:44:43 The University of nearby honing in invited. A band from. To celebrate 00:44:50 its 350th anniversary on the organizing committee Satam on who lived in 00:44:57 and he made sure that became the 1st band from Africa to play under those have the 00:45:04 trees of course are open and he went to see them they danced on the sand pitched in 00:45:08 front of the stage as if they were back in Cameroon they offered to help out with 00:45:13 the next Africa Day which in 991 became the Africa festival the rest is history. 00:45:45 All of them to good. Amid and Gambia they all have played here just like 00:45:52 Angola as legend bunga. And very often 00:45:58 a comeback. Like 00:46:17 how do you know some of the wizard of the. He loves coming here as does his manager 00:46:23 My name is Carolyn over here and I'm producer and manager. Several artists 00:46:30 among them I don't know if we had 00:46:32 a blast of the show probably also the highlight of power until we were really 00:46:37 looking forward to be here. Has played out twice before with Live gets up and I've 00:46:43 been there before that with other artists love it they always have 00:46:47 a really very good selection. From all over the continent of Africa and that's 00:46:53 beautiful that mix of big names and new names is deliberate explains 00:46:59 a low blow can. We expect to have yes it's always good to have one really big name 00:47:06 that attracts 00:47:06 a lot of people like far too much of this year but then they'll also see those 00:47:11 other bands they may not have heard about. 00:47:28 This band played its brand of does a drug before 00:47:30 a packed audience Darren drives from Morocco my full name is Mostafa 00:47:35 a kid I mean yes we live in the provide us of the gorilla in the village. We have 00:47:42 a huge number of the tribes we live in in one place and you know no violence no 00:47:47 nice is and we're all in peace and love so that's why we said that our tribes and 00:47:52 we come together to share their message of love and tolerance with people 00:47:56 a great pleasure for us to Mostafa now the heart of this festival is an army of 00:48:01 people who take you to your parking space check your ticket keep the place clean 00:48:06 and do your drawings bring the artists to the stage make sure the sound works 00:48:12 ensure security. And they all do it for free you heard one of them already lose it 00:48:17 here are 00:48:18 a few of us. He 00:48:25 said and all have their own reasons to be here but traveled in Africa the mad about 00:48:30 the music they love the 1st of all and they love helping out without them there 00:48:35 simply would not be a festival So here's 00:48:38 a big shout out for all those hundreds of volunteers who literally make this Africa 00:48:42 festival possible when they will be back next year. 00:48:58 For those who can make it to have 00:49:00 a You Tube channel where you can see many of the artists who performed here. With 00:49:06 another festival tradition blast of 00:49:08 a show to send you on your way home this year it was the wonderful Gary collective 00:49:14 1st weekend of July 2020 booked next year. 00:49:24 We are getting near the end of our time for just 2 more songs both recent 200-1000 00:49:30 releases 1st here is the freshest Afrobeat from Nigeria. 00:49:37 Savage and Helen John. 00:50:15 Just. 00:50:31 Like. 00:51:24 That. 00:52:11 All right yeah that was l.-o. 00:52:13 . Baby from Nigeria I met the Maxwell and here's the last song about our people 00:52:18 this one it's called just freeze Africana meaning I'm African and it's by the late 00:52:24 ha she did from Algeria now Russia ha passed away sadly on September 12th 00:52:31 2018 after succumbing to a heart attack and this song one of a leaven in 00:52:37 a credible tracks comes off his most recent album that was released posthumously 00:52:42 September 14th just 2 days after his death 2090. 00:52:54 3. Pretty. 00:53:03 Good. 00:53:10 But. To. 00:53:18 Me No sir. Alex. 00:53:26 Alex. Cohen. 00:53:40 Thanks. 00:53:47 Thanks. Thanks. 00:54:14 Thank you. All right that was just nice Africana by the late 00:54:21 Hi I'm Heather Maxwell and it's time to say goodbye for this week thank you so much 00:54:26 for joining me listeners and 00:54:29 a special thank you to much goal and to Brahms Posthumus for their interviews from 00:54:34 Mozambique and Holland and also I want to thank me all for you for joining me on 00:54:40 Song of the week please click over to my music time in Africa You Tube channel 00:54:45 Facebook page or group Instagram at and t.i.a. 00:54:48 Maxwell and Twitter at music time Africa you can get updates at fresh news photos 00:54:54 videos all throughout the week on our f.m. 00:54:57 Stations were live Saturdays Sundays at 1505 am at 25 universe time and we're also 00:55:04 on shortwave radio Friday at 9 o 5 u.t.c. 00:55:08 And Saturdays and Sundays at 9 o 515052005 and 2200500 u.t.c. 00:55:15 4 times Saturday and Sunday yeah finally you can always find us on line any time at 00:55:21 hearing dot com Just search for me had 00:55:24 a Maxwell music time in Africa till next week stay below to fold. 00:55:36 This is v.o.a. 00:55:37 News I'm Jim Berto several House committees have subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike 00:55:42 pump 00:55:43 a 0 for documents related to the impeachment inquiry against President Trump Jackie 00:55:48 Quinn reports the subpoena says in October 4th deadline for the secretary of state 00:55:53 to produce the documents they're seeking separately lawmakers sent 00:55:56 a letter notifying secretary might pump 00:55:59 a 0 they've scheduled depositions for 5 State Department officials including former 00:56:04 ambassador Marie on of it she was abruptly removed in May from her post as 00:56:08 ambassador to Ukraine and President Trump referred to her as bad news. In his July 00:56:14 phone call with the president of Ukraine but 00:56:16 a number of officials tell the Associated Press You've out of its was highly 00:56:20 respected she'd been pressing the Ukrainian government to address its corruption 00:56:24 problems Jackie Quinn Washington congressional Democrats want answers from the 00:56:29 Pentagon and White House on the delay in military aid to Ukraine the peace to 00:56:33 McGuire reported in Trump claimed he withheld nearly $400000000.00 in military aid 00:56:39 to Ukraine because of corruption in the country but documents obtained by the a.p. 00:56:43 Show the Pentagon certified in May that enough progress was made to release the 00:56:48 congressionally authorized aid the package was finally released earlier this month 00:56:53 House impeachment inquiry wants to know if Trump withheld the money and weapons to 00:56:57 get Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter to gain 00:57:02 a political advantage over Biden the chairs of the House budget and appropriations 00:57:06 committees want Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Budget director 00:57:10 Russell vote to explain the discrepancy to McGuire Washington the Washington Post 00:57:16 reports President Trump special representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker resigned on 00:57:21 Friday 00:57:21 a whistleblower complaint from within the intelligence community described Volcker 00:57:26 as trying to contain the damage from efforts by Mr Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani to 00:57:31 press Ukraine to investigate Democrats this is v.o.a. 00:57:34 News Afghans are voting today to elect 00:57:37 a new president among the candidates is Afghan's Afghanistan's chief executive 00:57:43 Abdullah Abdullah he says the people will not accept fraud in the election the main 00:57:47 concern is that if it is as fraudulent as it was in 2014 this would have 00:57:53 consequences unfortunately I'm not talking about different scenarios but what I'm 00:57:58 sure about it that. A fraudulent election and outcome will not be 00:58:05 accepted by the people. Officials say there was an explosion Saturday outside 00:58:10 a polling station in the southern city of Kandahar that left several people 00:58:14 seriously injured 00:58:15 a provincial official in Afghanistan's North says insurgents firing mortars on the 00:58:20 city of Kunduz or attempting to stop voting in the national elections.