Music Review Global Routes with TONY BURKE

Emblematic voices of Djibouti and Cuba offer, respectively, an intriguing exploration and reassuring familiarity

Global Routes with Tony Burke Ernesto Djedje was one of the most innovative and successful artists Cote d‘Ivoire has ever produced

A RISING star in the 1960s, when he became the guitar player and leader of the group Ivoiro Star, Ernesto Djedje set out to modernise Ivorian music

Global Routes with Tony Burke Rogie: music that has aged like fine palm wine

THE king of palm wine music (named after the effects of drinking palm’s natural juice) Sooliman Ernest Rogers was born in 1926 in Sierra Leone.

Album reviews with TONY BURKE

New releases from Hank Williams Jnr, GA-20 and Kirk Fletcher

Dictatorial Erdogan v the HDP's ‘democracy alliance’ in Turkey

TONY BURKE attended the congress of Turkey's largest left-wing party, the pro-Kurdish HDP, which is expected to be a power broker in any electoral coalition to take down the authoritarian regime that has ruled for almost two decades

New Zealand employers running ‘active misinformation campaign’ on Fair Pay Act

TONY BURKE explains how new collective bargaining plans are being misrepresented by vested interests

Global routes with Tony Burke Santrofi: back to the future

Global Routes with Tony Burke: May 20, 2022

Seminal 1970s recordings by Gabon’s Orchestre Massako reissued

Finnish paper workers return to work after strike ends in victory

FINNISH paper workers belonging to the Paperiliitto union at multinational UPM returned to work on April 23 after 112 days of strike action — the l

Mexico's ‘yellow’ trade unions receive another blow after workers vote for independent union

MEXICO’S pro-company “yellow” trade unions and widely unpopular “protection contracts” received another blow this week after workers at a Panasonic