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Kanye Meets Angola on the Dancefloor

on September 23, 2011

Via Benjamin Lebrave‘s Lungu Lungu column over at Fader Mag: I’ve been neck deep into Angolan house. I recently discovered a never ending thread of good afro-house coming from Angola on Soundcloud. So I quickly put my rusty Portuguese to use and connected with a slew of cats making these beats. After a few weeks [...]

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Sudan Votes Music Hopes Meets Akwaaba

on July 6, 2011

We have a few things to celebrate here. First of all, let’s welcome South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, which comes into existence this Saturday July 9. Please do yourself a favor and indulge into spending a few minutes on South Sudan’s Wikipedia page. In most people’s minds, Sudan rhymes with… dead bodies? Darfur conflict? [...]

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Limited Edition FOKN Bois CD – Made in Ghana

on June 8, 2011

Akwaaba, digital label? Scratch that. We’ve got one hundred CDs under our belt. Made in Ghana that is! Numbered and shipping from Accra as of today. We won’t make any more, sooooo we suggest you act FASTA FASTA if you want to get a copy! Link to buy is on the Bandcamp page – and [...]

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Lungu Lungu: New Akwaaba Column for Fader Magazine

on June 7, 2011

In case you missed the first installment of our new Lungu Lungu column over at Fader Mag, here’s the second piece, this time about one of our current favorites down here in Ghana, Shadow, the one man operation that is literally lifting the entire Buduburam Liberia Refugee Camp, and bringing Liberia’s sounds to Ghanaians, and [...]

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Spreading Mamã Africana: take this instrumental!!

on June 6, 2011

Batida and Akwaaba invite you to take this beat further, sticking to the original concept: the song Lá Vai María is about Mamã Africana, both Africa and the African mother. So we just ask that you stick to the theme: write a song about your own María, about mothers, about Africa, write with a strong [...]

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