I’ve had this idea for a long while…
A new online radio/tv network called “Africana.fm”, which will broadcast news, talk, and music every three hours.
It will, obviously, be geared toward Black communities which are located in those countries where English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Dutch (and, by inclusion, Afrikaans) are either the predominately-spoken languages or the official, if not necessarily popular, languages of government, so it’ll be broadcast on 6 separate streams for each of the 6 languages, on the same schedules, so that most of the target audience can be reached (that is, if they either have the Internet at home or have found a way to jerry-rig a computer to a stereo system in, say, their car, and turn the volume up LOUD, so that the whole neighborhood can hear it, lol).
Of course, the schedule will proceed as follows:
Afternoon: 2 pm to 5 pm
Early Evening: 5 pm to 8 pm
Evening: 8 pm to 11 pm
Midnight: 11 pm to 2 am
Late Night: 2 am to 5 am
Early Morning: 5 am to 8 am
Morning: 8 am to 11 am
Midday: 11 am to 2 pm
The hourly news will broadcast every 1st hour of each schedule segment, while talk will broadcast every 2nd hour and Music will be heard on every 3rd. Of course, way will be made if a live event or a movie or special is to be shown. The format that this network will follow will be similar to that shown by http://lfx.co.jp.
The subject matter will, of course, center around sub-Saharan Africa and its Diaspora, especially in the realm of the news (sports, arts, entertainment, politics, culture, and stuff like that).
There will be 6 websites for this network:
en.africana.fm (English)
es.africana.fm (Spanish)
fr.africana.fm (French)
pt.africana.fm (Portuguese)
nd.africana.fm (Dutch)
ar.africana.fm (Arabic)
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Each website will follow the same format:
Front page (with News Headlines by region)
Forum
Blog (livejournal.com/~africana.fm)
Crew Bio/Contact
Listen Links
The news headlines, as expressed before, will be featured by region:
West Africa
East Africa
Central Africa
Southern Africa
Horn of Africa
North Africa (West)
North Africa (East)
Middle East
Western Europe
United Kingdom
Canada
USA (East Coast)
USA (West Coast)
USA (Deep South)
USA (MidWest)
West Indies
Mesoamerica
Guyanas (and T&T)
Northern Andes
Brazil (Northeast)
Brazil (Southeast)
Southern Andes (incl. Uruguay and Paraguay)
Yep, those many, lol X-D
In fact, the news in broadcast form will also proceed in the same exact form, but the news will ALWAYS, in some form or fashion, feature Black communities within them, so that other people of the same ancestry who may live a thousand miles/kilometers away from where the story is taking place will be surprised to know what is actually going on in the Black African community in that distant country or region.
The objective of this network will be to accomplish what I believe is the true and ultimate goal of journalism: to educate, To put the whole public at a point of accountability or responsibility for a newsmaking event in another country. And in this case, the “students” will be the worldwide Black African community at large.
(Not-so) Random Quote:
“
The latest age of slavery has been the enslavement of Blacks by
White people. The memory of this age will persist in the thinking of Black
people until they have vindicated themselves.
This tragic and historic event, the resulting bitter feeling,
and the yearning or the vindication of a whole race, constitute a psychological
motivation of Black people to vengeance and triumph that cannot be disregarded.
In addition, the inevitable cycle of social history, which includes the Yellow
people’s domination of the world when it marched from Asia, and the White
people’s carrying out a wide-ranging colonialist movement covering all the
continents of the world, is now giving way to the re-emergence of Black
people.
”
Muammar Qaddafi, The Green Book
Not that I’m a big fan of him, but I did read his Green Book a night ago, and I was….well…..impressed, I’ll say that much.
Have you seen Hotel Rwanda yet? I just saw it today. It’s… heavy.
nah, not yet. I saw news coverage on it, and I could see that it was heavy as well. I mean, considering the fact that it invloved the butchering of 800,000 people (btw, the guy who led the primary UN peacekeeping mission to Rwanda was Romeo Dallaire, a CAF veteran. Even HE’s wondering why the world didn’t pay as much attention to Rwanda as it did to Bosnia & Herzegovina, and one cannot blame him) over a period of 6 months, I wouldn’t expect anything less from a movie that would be dealing with that particular subject matter. It was a terrible genocide, but even today you’ll hear more about Szrebenica (if that’s the way you spell it) than you will about the crimes of the Interahamwe against the Tutsi population in Rwanda, Burundi, and (years later, during the so-claaed “African World War”) the DR in the east.
also, I’ve never been one for theatre movies. The last movie that I ever saw in theatres was “Matrix Reloaded”, lol.
I’ll just wait until it can come out on DVD (or maybe just download it on Limewire when it becomes available).
Interesting that you should say that the rwanda was not really big as an issue over there. In south africa, when the sep 11 attacks took place, I remember our president saying (roughly)
yes , many americans died. Yes, it is a sad and terrible thing.
But in Africa, we mourn the africans who are butchered in their millions and reduced to a one minute blip on cnn.
America is big over here..Mcdonalds, nike, all the usual, but american wars? American anti terrorist campeigns, american anything…other than plain commercial made in china crap…big social nono. The rwandan refugees, somalians, nigerians, congolese, that crowd our homeless shelters and slums, and squatter camps, make the african crises real to us.
I didn’t know that SA provides asylum to refugees, considering that, except for Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, Southern Africa isn’t necessarily considered to be a hotspot for conflicts of the kind that you hear of more from Rwanda/Burundi and the DRC, among other nations (plus the fact that SA doesn’t border most of those nations, and refugess usually flee from a conflict in their homeland to surrounding nations, like Rwandans to Tanzania).
But since SA is located in Africa, I guess that the crises of the continent affect your country’s people far more than it could ever affect the United States, for reasons of history, location, and culture.
I guess that the reason why these things actually HAPPEN in Africa is because of both the lack of and totally insufficient distribution of media coverage on the African continent. And of course, most of the time, where there is no media access for the masses (be it heard, seen, or read), the people are easily subjected to frequent violations of human rights by the government(s) in that region. In fact, why is it that, when I look for streaming media (in either radio or tv form) from sub-Saharan Africa, the only results that I can pull up are mostly from South Africa or Senegal?
I guess that the lack of good media in Africa and the violations of human rights which occur in the same area go hand in hand, right?
Kinda random
Hey, can you give me the stuff to update the boa community, I dn’t mean to bug, but I’ve been itching to do some stuff with it, update info, and do things like that
There new cd just came out and I would like to try to get the ball rolling on the community
Re: Kinda random
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=6
then try to post this particular image: http://boaweb.co.uk/images/Get-There-(Cover)–BOA.gif
I don’t know much else as far as adding content is concerned.
Re: Kinda random
Don’t I need a password, or did you already put me as an assistent on the community?
Re: Kinda random
aye, I already added you as a maintainer for the community.