Tag Archives: kizomba
NGOMA 8 – DJ Zhao Kizomba Mixtape

NGOMA 8 – DJ Zhao Kizomba Mixtape

on February 11, 2011

If you hear a Western DJ playing music from Africa, 99% of the time he/she will either be playing old school afrobeat and afrofunk, or super high energy dance music. Unless maybe you find yourself in a Cape Verdian club we doubt you’d hear a lot of more mellow sounds. Well thankfully, as exemplified with [...]

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11/11 Indepêndencia de Angola

11/11 Indepêndencia de Angola

on November 17, 2009

In 1975, Angola became independent from Portugal, months after the fall of Salazar’s Estado Novo. Rather than repeat the story, read it in wikipedia. To celebrate Angola and its culture, Julia of Africa Kabisa on WMBR is having an Angolan music special on Sunday Nov 22, 4-6pm EST. Julia will interview Akwaaba founder Benjamin Lebrave [...]

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Akwaaba Sem Transporte on Myspace

on August 1, 2009

Everyone has their favorite site to listen to music and check out new artists… Myspace still deserves respect, so we created a page for Akwaaba Sem Transporte, our Angolan kuduro compilation.

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