 PalmaCoco, is a Latin music group, created by producer Sr.Ortegon Cali. His musical style is what they call the "BoogaFlow" (mix of 60´s latin boogaloo and urban music).
The idea of merging the old school salsa, theboogaloo, the shing-a-ling, mambo, with urban music, was born in Paris nearly 10 years with the DJ "Fercho the Bacan" and the artistic director of Boogaloo Concept, Stan Galou. This was because the rhythm pattern has always been an obsession the Sr.Ortegon, and he belives that the latin Boogaloo, despite its short lifetime, was very important for the Latin music industry in the U.S. ( Watussi eg), which managed to dance to the non-Latinos of the time and besides, it was the first authentic musical expression of the Latino born in NY.
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 Originally published on Susan Abraham's blog . Reprinted with permission.
With the exception of an established British-owned bookstore called A Novel Idea and its string of accompanying stores scattered all over Dar-es-Salaam, many of the older Tanzanian bookshops in this ancient harbour city, are still reputed to be poky and daunting haunts where a stern, po-faced bookseller is inclined to keep strange hours, willing a customer desperately out of his shop while ringing his old-fashioned till with annoying haste come lunchtime.
Yet, a visit to Dar is still propelled with the masochistic tradition that I slink into one of these historic shops selling quirky academic items; with clockwork regularity and with the clumsy attitude of a bashful schoolgirl, ready to be caught out for a misdemeanor.
If the truth be known, it is nostalgia that beckons for once upon-a-time many moons ago when I was still little, bookshops in the small town of Klang, Malaysia where I was raised, too were honed by no-nonsense and bespectacled Chinese booksellers.
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