{"id":1705,"date":"2010-05-10T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T10:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2010-05-10T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T10:05:40","slug":"africanhiphop-com-presents-baloji-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/africanhiphop-com-presents-baloji-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Africanhiphop.com presents Baloji live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1706 alignnone\" title=\"baloji_closeup\" src=\"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/baloji_closeup-450x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" \/><br \/>\nIf you happen to be in the Netherlands this coming thursday (May 13 from 8pm) you may want to join Africanhiphop.com in an evening of film &amp; performance around the theme of La Sape (Soci\u00e9t\u00e9\u00a0 des ambianceurs et des personnes \u00e9l\u00e9gantes), the fashion movement of Congo-Brazzaville and DR Congo that was made famous by the likes of Papa Wemba and recently seen in the publication <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trolleybooks.com\/bookSingle.php?bookId=118\" target=\"_blank\">Gentlemen of Bacongo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This thursday, the documentary &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcfour\/documentaries\/storyville\/elegant-interview.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">The importance of being elegant<\/a>&#8216; about La Sape will be screened by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts &amp; Prince Claus Fund as part of their &#8216;International Art in Amsterdam&#8217; series. Africanhiphop.com is taking care of the performances that night. So we asked our friend Baloji (Belgium\/Congo) to come join us for a show &#8211; the first time he&#8217;s playing a regular set in the Netherlands! Dj Threesixty (Bamba Nazar) from African Hip Hop Radio is backing him up and playing tunes until after midnight. Congolese-Dutch author Alphonse Muambi will introduce the film with a column. Entrance is only \u20ac2,50 and you may want to come early if you want to get a good seat during the screening of the film.<\/p>\n<p>Trouw\/De Verdieping<br \/>\nWibautstraat 127, Amsterdam, Netherlands (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Wibautstraat+131,+Amsterdam&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=65.302917,151.171875&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=17&amp;iwloc=addr\" target=\"_blank\">google maps<\/a>)<br \/>\nwebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trouwamsterdam.nl\/de-verdieping\/\" target=\"_self\">www.trouwamsterdam.nl\/de-verdieping<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->If you don&#8217;t know Baloji, watch these music videos: &#8216;Tout ceci ne vous rendra pas le Congo&#8217; (2007)<br \/>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mjn93WtQbiI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>and &#8216;Karibu ya bintou&#8217; featuring Konono No.1 (2010)<br \/>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cUVxhvjc5O0[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: N. Karakatsanis <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be in the Netherlands this coming thursday (May 13 from 8pm) you may want to join Africanhiphop.com in an evening of film &amp; performance around the theme of La Sape (Soci\u00e9t\u00e9\u00a0 des ambianceurs et des personnes \u00e9l\u00e9gantes), the fashion movement of Congo-Brazzaville and DR Congo that was made famous by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[122,166,306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}