African Voices Podcast: Episode 6!

In this episode, we feature:

• Top news stories from the African continent
• Upcoming Events
• An exclusive interview with Kinobe from Kinobe & the African Sensation, a music group based in Uganda
• Advice Box: Scholarships and Jobs for young African and African Americans
• Music from Uganda's Kinobe & the African Sensation

Click here to listen! 

Kinobe & the African Sensation Come to Chicago

Kinobe & the African Sensation

       Join the community at the Old Town School of Folk Music 

*LIVE SET*

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

8:30pm- ALL AGES

4544 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago IL

*MUSIC WORKSHOP*

Thursday, March 22, 2012

8:00pm- ALL AGES

4544 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago IL

"Born in Uganda, Kinobe is a gifted multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer whose early abilities in traditional African music quickly garnered acclaim on the world stage. Steeped in the music of his homeland, with ears and heart open to the pulse of the world ~ Kinobe is a unique artist. Together with his band, 

The African Sensation, they are the vanguard of Ugandan performers representing the inspired synthesis of African roots and global fusion." 

Click here to visit their website! 

Issue 5 of the African Advocate is out now!

In this issue, we discuss:

• Rose Tchakounte's struggle with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• An invitation to the UAO's African Business Round Table
• The up-coming African Youth Forum, along with other forums
• Local African News
• News from the African continent
• African events within the Chicagoland area 

To subscribe, click here to get monthly updates from the African Community! 

Listen to African Voices on your Cell Phone!

We are collaborating with Legend Talk Radio to bring you the latest African Voices Podcast on your cell-phone! The podcast is split into two segments – Chicago African News featuring news, events, issues and the Advice Box; Africans in Chicago Oral History featuring interviews with members of the community. You can now dial this number from your phone at the times below to listen to the podcast (all times are in US Central Time)! TUNE IN:

1-832-280-0017

To listen from outside the US on your phone or on Skype-Out, dial 001-832-280-0017. But beware of being charged international rates.

Chicago African News with AfricanVoices Schedule

Days Time

Mon 9:00am, 12:00pm, 3:00pm, 6:00pm, 9:00pm
Tue 9:00am, 3:00pm, 6:05pm, 10:00pm
Wed 9:00am, 12:00pm, 3:00pm, 6:00pm, 9:00pm

Thur 9:00am, 12:00pm, 3:00pm, 6:05pm, 10:00pm

Fri 9:00am, 3:00pm, 6:05pm, 9:00pm

Sat 9:000am, 12:05pm, 5:00pm, 7:05pm

Sun 9:00am, 12:00pm, 3:00pm, 6:00pm, 10:00pm

Chicago Oral History Report (Africans in Chicago Stories)

Days Time

Mon 6:30pm

Tue 3:30pm

Thur 12:30pm

Fri 3:30pm, 9:30pm

Sat 5:30pm

Win free tickets to see Tinariwen at the Metro in Chicago!

Malian group Tinariwen will be making their way to Chicago at the famous Metro music venue. United African Organization, courtesy of Metro Chicago, is giving out two tickets to the show!

On Sunday, November 13 at 7pm, a question will be launched on THIS blog, and who ever emails services@uniteafricans.org first with the correct answer, wins BOTH tickets!

Our winner will be notified on Monday, November 14 and will need to provide the names of those attending the event by Thursday November 17.

So, make sure you're at your computer on Sunday, November 13 at 7pm and win some great tickets!

Tinariwen's show is Friday, November 25 at 9:00pm.

African Voices Podcast released!

We are thrilled to introduce you to our newest project: the 'African Voices' podcast! The Internet has democratized radio and TV by providing space for people with few resources and limited professional media experience to get their voices heard. The United African Organization would like to be part of this process. That's why we are launching our free podcast, 'African Voices'. Through our podcast, we are offering the African community in Illinois the opportunity to have their voices heard.

Our first podcast is now online! The podcast features October news and events from the African community in Illinois, information our Leadership Development Program, an interview with Paulo Bombe about his journey from Angola to Chicago (from our Africans in Chicago Oral History Project) and music from Youssoupha Sidibe, an artist from Senegal currently living in California.

You can listen to it on our podcast website. Make sure to subscribe to our podcast to be informed of future episodes! If you would like to contribute to our podcast, email podcasts@uniteafricans.org. Be sure to check out the guidelines for contributions.

Transformative Music and Dance from the Congo

This weekend the Museum of Contemporary Art hosts performances by Faustin Linyekula from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Performances take place Friday-Sunday, October 21-23, 7:40pm at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago:

"In this raucous and powerful dance theater performance, three dancers, including choreographer and director Faustin Linyekula, reflect on the political, social, and cultural history and present day struggles of the Congo. The dancers move to the dark poems of Antoine Vumilia Muhindo, a political prisoner in Kinshasa and childhood friend of Linyekula’s, set to driving music by Congolese guitarist Flamme Kapaya and his five-member on-stage band. The work seeks to present hope for a better future in the Congo.

The 2011 U.S. Tour of more more more… future is produced by MAPP International Productions in partnership with The Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium."

Tickets: MCA members - $22, Nonmembers - $28, Students - $10. Buy tickets online or call the MCA Box Office, 312.397.4010.

Learn more.

Also this weekend:

Artists up close: Home as Radical Place round table

Saturday, Oct 22, 12-2pm at the Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone, Chicago IL. Attendance is Free.

Returning after 13 years in exile to his homeland of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Faustin Linyekula and members of his Studios Kabako are meeting with Chicago’s residents of the south side to weigh how people can rediscover a sense of belonging in our turbulent times. Kabako, his network of multi-use studios throughout Kisangani, is an answer to the culture of death being propagated by the political violence of the aftermath from the Second Congo War (1998-2003). Run as intentional organizational and physical structures, the circumstances behind Kabako which compelled Linyekula to return home and build in Kisangani are specific, but the causes and consequences resonate for all of us. Using as the starting point his artistic practice model, which he dubs “geo-choreography”, Linyekula invites local artist/activists to share their own models for self-sufficient and sustainable community through culture.

Learn more.

JahGhana and UIC students support UAO

Members of JahGhana and the UIC Student Council presenting the check to UAO staff Alie Kabba and Nancy Asirifi-Otchere on Saturday, October 15th, 2011.

Entertainment Group JahGhana teamed up with the UIC (University of Illinois in Chicago) Student Council to raise funds for the United African Organization this month! They hosted their annual Afro Entertainment Awards show on October 8th, 2011. Some of the funds raised from the event were donated to the UAO. This is community support at its best! Thanks to JahGhana and UIC Student Council for their incredible contribution!