Inc. All rights reserved. Activists marched, threw rocks, and rushed police barricades. There was no rock-throwing here when the FTAA talks began in Miami at the 1994 Summit of the Americas .
Equal parts talking drum and electric guitar, juju captures the pulse of globalization.
Africando organizers hope our much vaunted Gateway to the Americas will swing a little wider, opening up the Gateway to Africa . You have a unique opportunity here to say this is our market. African and European music fused, forming the soundtrack of the colonial system that made Europe rich while underdeveloping Africa and scattering Africans across the Americas. Whether globalization, which critics claim will once again benefit the rich at the expense of the masses, will be any better remains to be seen. Listening to King Sunny Ade, you get a pretty good idea what globalization sounds like.