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Great songs from Africa, covering several countries from the 70s to the 00s: Awesome Tapes from Africa The creator of this website is Brian Shimkovitz, an American DJ based in Los Angeles. He devleoped the blog in 2006, with the goal of sharing music he had come across on a Fulbright scholarship in Ghana. * … Continue reading Great African Music

I From 1914 to 1918, Jorge Luis Borges lived in Geneva. As he describes in his autobiographical notes (Borges, 1987b), in 1913, his father, Jorge Guilhermo Borges, a lawyer in Buenos Aires, decided to travel to Europe with his family to treat his failing eyesight. At the time, Jorge Guilhermo was already retired because, according … Continue reading Genève