Africa

The origin of the banjo came up on Noble Savagery; I had to post a link to Muslim Roots, US Blues, and of course I had to post it here too.  That magazine, Saudi Aramco World, is pretty cool for an Islamophile like myself. I know it's funded by oil--and I know there's a lot more to Islam than what they present! But every issue looks nice, and satisfies my taste for the exotic.   Oh yeah--and it's free!

If you have not connected with the Save Darfur folks you should at www.savedarfur.org. Genocide is genocide.  Not acting in some way makes us a party to it. I hate to put it like that, but there it is. Do something, whatever you want. But if you feel comfortable with the Save Darfur people, they make it easy to do a little something with e-letters and phone calls, that sort of thing.

This is their press release for the Phone Call Day.