Africa: Moonshine Lights Up the Globe With Afro-House Extravaganzas

[Afropop] Moonshine is a Montreal-based, Afro-house collective founded in 2014 by Juno-nominated musician Pierre Kwenders and his childhood friend Hervé "Coltan" Kalongo--both of Congolese decent. San Farafina, a Montrealer of Haitian and Filipino descent (Fara for short), also deejays for Moonshine crowds, mixing a huge variety of new and old global sounds. Kalongo's visuals and fashion are also on display. The collective's beginnings are humble, but these days, they host rave-like parties in places as far

Africa: Cine Africa – the Kitchen, the Grenfell Tower Disaster, and the Windrush Scandal

[Afropop] On June 14, 2017, 72 residents perished in the Grenfell Tower disaster in London. Grenfell Tower was a "council house," one of Britain's federal government-funded buildings based on laws stretching back to 1875, meant largely for the working class and the needy. The highly flammable exterior "cladding," which ignited rapidly, totally violated the building code, the "Tenant Management Organization" (A.K.A. landlord) had ignored continuous complaints from residents about an assortment of fire-safety