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Kibera Benga “Kichwateli” – Just A Band, Modeselektor, Maasai Mbili

Kibera Benga “Kichwateli” – Just A Band, Modeselektor, Maasai Mbili

“Kichwateli” is an Afro-Scifi music-mentary performed by the super nerdy African boy band Just A Band, Berlin’s top electronic act Modeselektor and Nairobi’s talented art group Maasai Mbili. This video is Studio Ang‘s contribution to the BLNRB project, a cooperation of Kenyan and German artists initiated by Goethe-Institut Nairobi and Gebrüder Teichmann, anad released by [...]

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Chief Boima: Lone Stars Mix

Chief Boima: Lone Stars Mix

Lone Stars Mix by chiefboima About one year ago, Akwaaba’s own Benjamin Lebrave discovered gbema at the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. There he met Shadow, who gave him a thorough update on Liberian music. One song stood out in particular: the high-paced, auto-tune-heavy song Killing Me – and right then and there, Akwaaba was [...]

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Wanlov The Kubolor: Veverita feat. King Ayisoba

Wanlov The Kubolor: Veverita feat. King Ayisoba

We saw the puppets, we saw the background, and we couldn’t wait to see what they would look like on film – FINALLY!!! The song is adapted from a Romanian folktale. Vevi the squirrel disobeys an elder by climbing the sacred tree…he falls and injures his leg…his friends hear him cry, but come only to [...]

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Get Yo Remix On: Double “Tatali”

It has not been easy to single out one song for our next remix contest… as a matter of fact, it’s been so difficult we’ve decided to change the way we do things: from now on we might have multiple remix contests at the same time. Why? Or why not? Up until now we’ve tried [...]

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Ruff-N-Smooth: “Beautiful”

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