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Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have been named as the recipients of this year’s Polar Music Prize.

Sweden’s highest musical honour is awarded annually to both a pop performer and classical artist.

The pair will each receive one million kronor (£98,600) from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

King Carl XVI Gustaf will present them with their awards at a Stockholm ceremony on 27 August.

The prize is awarded for “exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music”.

The academy recognised Ndour as “not just a singer, but a storyteller, poet, singer of praise, entertainer and verbal historian”.

“With his exceptionally exuberant band Super Etoile de Dakar and his musically ground breaking and political solo albums, Youssou Ndour has worked to reduce animosities between his own religion, Islam, and other religions,” it said.

“His voice encompasses an entire continent’s history and future, blood and love, dreams and power.”

He was last year appointed Senegal’s minister of tourism.

He also owns an influential media group, a night club and a music studio.

Saariaho, who has written chamber music, orchestral works and operas, was praised as “a modern maestro who opens up our ears and causes their anvils and stirrups to fall in love”.

The prize was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, the manager of Swedish pop group ABBA.

Last year’s winners were US singer Paul Simon and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Other previous winners include Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bjork and Patti Smith.

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Colonial PR Films Provide Window into Africa’s More Recent Past

The UK’s Colonial Film Catalogue, a database of more than 6000 films (150 viewable online) provides an impressive, although subjective, window into the peoples living under British colonial rule. Although at times condescending, these videos find their value in providing a fantastic trip through time into life in these places.The website has a collection of films from across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia, and dating back as far as 1895. From Ghana (then the Gold Coast) toNigeria, British Guyana, India, and the Sudan, perhaps these videos are most valuable for providing an eye into the colonial mentality of the British empire.

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