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Musician fills African void
■Alhaji Papa Susso will
bring a taste of African
culture to campus through
his music and storytelling
By Eric Pfeiffer
Oregon Daily Emerald
Africa is coming to campus.
World-renowned Gambian
musician and oral historian Al
haji Papa Susso will perform a
free concert today in the EMU
Amphitheater. Stephen Wooten,
University professor of anthro
pology, organized the event in
an effort to showcase different
aspects of African culture to the
campus.
"This is a very nice way to
highlight Africa, which is some
thing this campus could use
more of,” he said.
Wooten teaches a University
class on the peoples of West
Africa. He originally planned on
having Susso speak to his class,
but the intention broadened
with a potential to reach the
greater University community.
“I wanted to bring [Susso] to a
wider audience than the class
room,” Wooten said. “He is a
significant, world-class per
former. It’s wonderful that we
can make this event available to
the public.”
Susso is a master Kora player,
according to the Kennedy Cen
ter’s African Odyssey Web site.
Along with his skills on the
Kora, he is also an oral historian,
virtuoso and director of Koriya
{ { This is a wonderful
chance for students to ex
pose themselves to music
and culture that they
can }t always find in the
University community.
Stephen Wooten
anthropology
professor
Musa Center for Research in
Oral Tradition.
During his performance Susso
will sing and play his Kora — a
21-string African harp-flute. The
Kora was invented by the Susso
family of the Mandinka tribe of
the great Manding Empire, ac
cording to the Manding Music
and Dance Limited organization.
The Kora is a stringed harp-flute
that is unique to the western
part of Africa, and was typically
used in performances before
members of the royal courts.
Susso has traveled around the
world during his career, per
forming throughout Africa, the
Middle East, Europe, Asia,
Canada and the United States.
Through his music and story
telling, Susso attempts to bring a
message of peace and love to his
audience, according to the
Kennedy Center.
In 1991, Susso was appointed
as Regents’ Lecturer in Ethno
musicology at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. As
listed in the program’s mission
statement, the program is de
signed to bring distinguished
leaders in the arts, sciences,
business and politics to campus.
Wooten encourages fans of
African music and the casual
observer to attend the concert.
“This is a wonderful chance
for students to expose thqm
selves to music and culture that
they can’t always find in the
University community,” he said.
The concert begins at noon
and is open to the public. In the
event of rain, the performance
will be held in the Fir Room of
the EMU.
Protesters burn Confederate flag
as lawmakers vote to take it down
■A bill passes to remove
the flag from the Capitol
dome and install it at a
Confederate monument
By Leigh Strope
The Associated Press
On the day that South Caroli
na celebrated its first official
Confederate Memorial Day,
members of the state House vot
ed Wednesday to remove the
Confederate flag from atop the
Capitol dome.
The Senate already has ap
proved a similar measure to re
move the flag and put one up at
a monument on the Statehouse
grounds. Democratic Gov. Jim
Hodges supports removal.
“The House faced a choice to
day — leave the flag flying or
move it from the dome to* a
place of historical context on
the Statehouse grounds,” he
said. “With tonight’s vote, we
are one giant step closer to end
ing the flag debate.”
Lawmakers debated late into
Wednesday night, with support
ers of the bill pleading with
their fellow House members to
approve the plan. The bill
passed 63-56. A procedural vote
will be held Thursday before it
goes back to the Senate, which
hasHo agree on minor differ
ences in the two versions.
South Carolina is the only
state that flies the Confederate
flag above its Statehouse, and
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple has been leading a tourism
boycott of the state until the flag
is removed.
Under the /plan approved
Wednesday, the dome flag
would come down and a Con
federate battle flag would be in
stalled at a Confederate soldier
monument on the Statehouse
grounds July 1.
In an odd coalition, hard-core
flag supporters and members of
the House Black Caucus tried to
{ ( The House faced a
choice today—leave the
flag flying or move it
from the dome... With
tonights vote, we are one
giant step closer to end
ing the flag debate.
Gov. Jim Hodges
South Carolina
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derail the bill. Supporters want
ed to kill the bill to keep the
flag atop the dome, while many
black legislators didn’t want a
new flag put at the monument
located at one of Columbia’s
busiest intersections. They and
the NAACP say it would be in
too prominent a place.
Earlier in the day, someone
vandalized the Confederate sol
dier monument, spray painting
the words “take it down, don’t
put it here” in red on the gran
ite base. No immediate arrests
were made.
At midday on the Statehouse
lawn, flag protesters ignited
Confederate and Nazi flags. The
Confederate flag, like the Nazi
emblem, “represents crimes
against humanity,” said Kevin
Gray of the Harriett Tubman
Read Street Freedom House
Project in Columbia.
The protesters shouted “no
compromise.” But the Confed
erate flag did not immediately
ignite, and its supporters chant
ed back “it won’t burn.”
“We are up here trying to
bring people together,” said
Gov. Jim Hodges’ spokesman,
Morton Brilliant. “It’s unfortu
nate that extremists on both
sides of this issue are trying to
drive people further apart.”
The Confederate flag was
raised above the Statehouse in
1962 to commemorate the Civil
War centennial, though critics
suggest it was also a gesture of
defiance toward the civil rights
movement.
Supporters say it is an impor
tant part of the state’s heritage;
opponents say it represents
slavery and racism.
Many state employees got the
day off for South Carolina’s first
permanent holiday to recognize
Confederate Memorial Day. It
was authorized by a bill signed
last week that also created a
permanent Martin Luther King
Jr. Day holiday in February.
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