Echoes of Mogadishu Past

Happy New Year! Once again I must apologize for the infrequency of posts here on Likembe.  There is no one reason why the spirit hasn't ...

Forcing the CPU affinity can make a monothreaded process run 2-3x faster

Today, I chrooted in my system from sysresCD and I discovered that running eix-update (a gentoo portage indexing program) ran almost 3x fas...

You don't trust your mouse anymore?

It never happened to you ? Sometimes... really sometimes... you click something and nothing happens. Logitech mice for example have a long s...

How to bypass those annoying filtered internet accesses

Today I had to login on one of those FON access points where http/https are ok but the rest was not. Here is my recipe to quickly and painle...

The Go Language is faster than the computer language benchmarks game thinks it is

Note : yes this is anecdotal but my point is that a complete test could be interesting. I noticed that the computer language benchmarks com...

Fighting Biafra

Thanks to a tip from reader/listener Zim Bida, I was able to score from Ebay an almost-mint copy of the elusive LP Igba na Egwu Ndi Biafra J...

Odds and Ends

Taking care of some unfinished business today. . . Many thanks to Ken Chijar Ekezie, who provides us with Part Two of the exceedingly rare ...

More Mlimani!

What better to liven up a slow Thursday morning than another dose of Muziki wa Dansi , courtesy of Tanzania's DDC Milmani Park Orchestra...

That Old-Time Jùjú Music

Like a lot of people, I got into Nigerian jùjú music in 1982 when King Sunny Adé hit the international scene. In short order Ebenezer Obey ...

The School of Verckys

Note: This post was updated and corrected on July 3, 2012. The rambunctious saxophone stylings of Kiamwuangana Mateta "Verckys" a...

Birth of a Nation

If you've been around here a while you'll know that I have a major obsession with the 1967-70 war in Nigeria, when the Eastern Regio...

Real Rumbira Sounds

A major force in the Zimbabwe music scene of the 1980s, the Real Sounds of Africa were in fact founded by a group of Congolese musicians in ...

DDC Mlimani - Nelson Mandela

The subject of many musical accolades over the years, South African liberation fighter (and President from 1994-99) Nelson Mandela receive...

Rest in Peace Jerry Hansen

Jerry Hansen, founder of Ghana's influential Ramblers International Dance Band, passed away in Accra Saturday, April 7th. He was 85 . Be...

The Alasa of Ibadanland

To an outsider, Lanrewaju Adepoju's Èwì would seem to be just another one of the many Yoruba percussion styles that are so popular in th...