Simphiwe Dana
Friday Bonus Music Break
June 22, 2012
Quite the mixed bag this week. ‘Disco Malapaa’ by Arusha’s Jambo Squad above; nine more below.
Like Jambo Squad, Mokoomba (from Zimbabwe) switch into Latino mode halfway in their new video:
Anbuley’s ‘Oleee’ arrives just in time for European summer:
Also based in Europe, although his latest video (like the previous one) suggests a longing for elsewhere, is Gaël Faye:
Simphiwe Dana decided to take a step back from social media a while ago and concentrate on doing what she does best: speak truth through music:
Still in South Africa, taxis and drifters:
South Africa based poppy Cameroonian Denzyl:
From Guinea, the Matoto Family:
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars signed up for a cause:
And — to turn it down a notch — Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze wrote a subdued lament for Haiti — quite beautifully — and recorded a video for it in Gorée: