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    • Manu Dibango - African Cameroonian jazz musican Manu Dibango performs at a music rally in front of the "unknown soldier" memorial during the second Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF) on July 17, 2009. Algeria is hosting the second (PANAF) at the request of the African Union, 40 years after the north African country staged the first such event, when several nations were still struggling for independence. More than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa, as well as Brazil and the United States, are descending on Algeria for a huge cultural festival that kicks off this weekend until July 20.
    • Manu Dibango - African Cameroonian jazz musican Manu Dibango performs at a music rally in front of the "unknown soldier" memorial during the second Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF) on July 17, 2009. Algeria is hosting the second (PANAF) at the request of the African Union, 40 years after the north African country staged the first such event, when several nations were still struggling for independence. More than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa, as well as Brazil and the United States, are descending on Algeria for a huge cultural festival that kicks off this weekend until July 20.
    • Manu Dibango - African Cameroonian jazz musican Manu Dibango performs at a music rally in front of the "unknown soldier" memorial during the second Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF) on July 17, 2009. Algeria is hosting the second (PANAF) at the request of the African Union, 40 years after the north African country staged the first such event, when several nations were still struggling for independence. More than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa, as well as Brazil and the United States, are descending on Algeria for a huge cultural festival that kicks off this weekend until July 20.
    • Manu Dibango - African Cameroonian jazz musican Manu Dibango performs at a music rally in front of the "unknown soldier" memorial during the second Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF) on July 17, 2009. Algeria is hosting the second (PANAF) at the request of the African Union, 40 years after the north African country staged the first such event, when several nations were still struggling for independence. More than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa, as well as Brazil and the United States, are descending on Algeria for a huge cultural festival that kicks off this weekend until July 20.
    • Manu Dibango - African Cameroonian jazz musican Manu Dibango performs at a music rally in front of the "unknown soldier" memorial during the second Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF) on July 17, 2009. Algeria is hosting the second (PANAF) at the request of the African Union, 40 years after the north African country staged the first such event, when several nations were still struggling for independence. More than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa, as well as Brazil and the United States, are descending on Algeria for a huge cultural festival that kicks off this weekend until July 20.
    Dibango is Cameroon's, and perhaps Africa's, best-known jazz saxophonist. Starting in the 1950s, he became a globe-trotting musician, living and performing in France, Belgium, Jamaica, Zaire, and Cote d'Ivoire, as well as in Cameroon. In 1960, Dibango was one of the founding members of the Zairean band African Jazz, with whom he spent five years. World attention came to Dibango with the release in ...more


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