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Lasting Music & Disposable Love in Nairobi

on December 7, 2011

(Originally published in the Lungu Lungu column at the Fader) Nairobi is a place I have yet to visit, but already I’m hooked to its bustling, cosmopolitan atmosphere. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Just A Band, I follow Sauti Sol on Twitter, I’ve been listening to Kenyan hip hop, hearing about Kenya’s nightlife [...]

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X-Pensive Nframa – Aunty Adoley EP – Free!

on November 8, 2011

X-Pensive Nframa – Aunty Adoley EP by Akwaaba Music This is our slowest release in the making!!! On Benjamin Lebrave’s very first trip to Ghana in the fall of 2007, he met with X-Pensive Nframa, an up and coming artist, who at the time had just released a phat single produced by then-hiplife maestro JQ. [...]

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From Eritrea to Ethiopia: Saba

on November 5, 2011

Another great song via the Lungu Lungu column over at Fader mag. This time the spotloight shines on Eritrean-born, Addis resident Saba. Thanks to DJ Sirak for the link,here’s one of Saba’s first completed songs, the beautiful Lene Yalew: From Fader: A few years back I stumbled upon an ’80s Ethiopian synth-pop track by Tigist [...]

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FOKN Bois & Irie Maffia Remixes

on October 31, 2011

It’s been a busy year so far for Ghana’s most scandalous Afro-pop duo known as the FOKN Bois. Aside from almost causing a war between Nigeria and Ghana, touring Europe, USA and releasing the world’s first Pidgen Musical, they also managed to record an 8-track EP The FOKN Dunaquest in Budapest with ELO of Irie [...]

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Don’t Watch That FOKN TV

Don’t Watch That FOKN TV

on October 24, 2011

NEWSFLASH: SORRY!!! Apparently the owners of this video have revoked our right to embed it on this site… we’re not sure at all what the point of making videos non-embeddable is, do you? Hopefully the video returns swiftly! Meanwhil you can watch it here The FOKN Bois are back! Freestyling bucolic style, video courtesy of [...]

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