Public Eye's Brian Montopoli is writing weekly dispatches for CBSNews.com while living and working in Berlin as part of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program. He will return to Public Eye in October.

Test your “J-dar” by briefly considering two modern reggae artists. Nasio Fontaine, the son of a Carib Indian mother and a father of African descent, has long locks and a stirring, world-weary voice.

It was a gathering of top artists, celebrities and music lovers from Nigeria and as Afrobeat legend Femi Kuti and German reggae artist jointly performed at the New Afrika Shrine, Ikeja, Lagos ...