These types of events are
always fairly exclusive affairs and no doubt there will be a majority white
crowd in attendance. This demographic will also be reflected on stage with
virtually no African acts set to appear.
Mr. Lee Jasper spokesperson and presenter for London’s only African based
radio station Voice of Africa Radio.com and 94.3FM stated that:
“This is a rerun of the Geldof concert a few years ago. Once again we see
no real African presence other than Eddie Grant and Jamelia both of whom
are of African descent. We would have expected a better and more inclusive
line up than this. This tendency of African exclusion reflects the
paternalism of the event organisers whose attitude seems to be let’s hold a
largely white and European celebration for Mandela. African artists and
media have by and large been excluded from the event. It’s a disgrace to
tarnish Mandela’s birthday in this way particularly given London’s African
community’s solid support to establish a statue of Mandela in Parliament
Square”.
Lee Jasper is available for interview. If you will like to arrange an
interview or any enquiries, please contact Amma Sem at the VOAR press
office on 0208471 9111 / 07950 819 519 or email info@voiceofafricaradio.com
FM LICENCE AWARDED
Voice of Africa Radio (VOAR) won its bid of a 5 year permanent FM licence
in London on the 16th of February 2006, after six years of tireless
campaigning, making it VOAR the first and only legally licenced African
radio station in the UK.
PROGRAMMING:
Apart from entertaining listeners with an exciting range of African music
spanning the continent of Africa, VOAR also provides vast range of phone-in
programmes discussing issues which are pertinent especially, to Africans at
local, national and international level.
The popularity of the station is already evident with it being featured in
the top 300,000 sites in the world; and reaching 1.6m listeners on
www.voiceofafricaradio.com and 600,000 on 94.3FM.
THANK YOU.
Best Regards,
Ola Olatubo
Recruitment / PR Officer
VOAR
Plaistow – London
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