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In its most ambitious programme yet, the 2008 edition of the THISDAY Music and Manner Festival will throw in four metropolises across the human race between July and October.

The festival will kick off in Capital Of Nigeria on July 11 and will travel on to Lagos on July 13. It will also throw in American Capital District of Columbia on August 1st while the expansive stopping point will throw in Greater London on October 14.

The subject of this twelvemonth which will see many planetary music, manner and cultural icons from Africa and the human race on show is "Africa Rising: To Observe the Best and Brightest of Emerging New Africa."

The festival will be used as a medium for Africa to state the human race that what the continent desires is not helps and press releases but monolithic investing in substructure directed at drive economical growing and development and micro finance to aim poverty.

Also, the Music and Manner Festival will be used to direct strong signalings to the international community that with human race social class substructure and microfinance, Africa will work out its ain jobs and turn out of poorness and disease.

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"Putting the negative mental image of Africa on human race mass media to arouse understanding and pull assistance is not what we necessitate in Africa. What Africa necessitates is for the human race to strategically aim investings in substructure and microfinance. And the planetary people and cultural icons being put option together for the music and manner festival will drive the message to the four corners of the human race as we seek to change perceptual experience about Africa and what it needs," an expert involved in the planning of the festival said yesterday in London.

According to the expert, "We don't necessitate press release in Africa. Rather we necessitate hands-up for substructure and microfinance. This volition be the message of the festival."

A human race fourth estate conference will be addressed in Greater London adjacent hebdomad by the organisers of the festival to give inside information about the events which will agitate the human race in the adjacent three calendar months and give new way in Africa's relation with the remainder of the world.

Music stores bombed in Pakistan - BBC News

At least four people have got been wounded after activists bombed picture and music mercantile establishments in north-west Pakistan.

The hurts were all from a blast at the Ashraf music shop in Kohat, a town in North-West Frontier State (NWFP).

Militants also blew up two twelve stalls selling CDs and pictures in Miran Shah in the tribal country of North Waziristan. No casualties were reported.

Pro-Taleban belligerents see music and movie as un-Islamic and are behind tons of such as onslaughts in recent years.

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The BBC's Ilyas Caravansary states Wednesday's onslaught in Kohat is the first to have got been carried out in NWFP in daylight.

More than a twelve music stores were blown up on the outskirts of the town on Monday night.

Most music supplies in NWFP have got either closed down or switched to other concern followers menaces from suspected Taleban groups.

The onslaughts come up at a clip when activists based in a tribal territory near Kohat are reported to be nearing a peace understanding with the authorities.

A police force functionary told the BBC it was too early to state who carried out the Kohat bombings.

He said there could be respective motivations for the attacks, ranging from extortion to an attempt to make hurdling in the at hand peace agreement.