![]() ![]() DJ Tarico & Burna Boy featuring Preck & Nelson Tivane, ‘Yaba Buluku (Remix)’ (Mozambique) Skepta brings hard rhymes to JAE5’s production, airbrushed to showcase the vulnerabilities that even victories don’t surmount. READ MORE Ghanaian band Alostmen mix and match musical genres in Kologo With a mellow hook helmed by Rema, ‘Dimension’ is introspective in its exploration of how stardom and street life intersect. JAE5 featuring Skepta & Rema, ‘Dimension’ (Diaspora (UK) & Ghana) This jewel from Angola is a mid-tempo duet performed entirely in Portuguese without exempting lovers of music and romance who cannot access the language of sheer delight, easy listening as well as memorable turns of phrase and the signalling of desire and despair that the song rallies so eloquently.ġ1. Rui Orlando featuring Bruna Tatiana, ‘Já Te Conheço (Remix)’ (Angola) LADIPOE featuring Buju, ‘Feeling’ (Nigeria)įollowing his lockdown hit ‘Know You’, Nigerian rapper LADIPOE mines the nostalgia of unbridled fun of pre-pandemic times with the Buju-assisted ‘Feeling’, his second big hit in two successive years.ġ2. Zulu-inflected, mellifluous lyrics plus infectious, dance-ready beats are the reference points of this song that works out its dance floor choreography.ġ3. READ MORE South Africa: Top 20 songs of 2021 to keep you dancing The Kenyan-born, multi-talented artist and songwriter, Nviiri the Storyteller, agonises over heartbreak, insecurity and infidelity on his jazzy ‘Niko Sawa’ song. Nviiri the Storyteller featuring Bien, ‘Niko Sawa’ (Kenya) Slow-burning, ear-candy blasting from the past into immediate social currency courtesy Tik-Tok, CKay’s poster emo-Afrobeats song – ‘Love Nwantiti’ – defies categories and reifies itself into the realms of mythical alchemy.ġ7. CKay featuring DJ Yo! & AX’EL, ‘Love Nwantiti’ (Remix) (Nigeria) Off his three-track EP Afrikan Rebel, ‘Style & Fashion’ – the project’s highlight – blends Afrobeats and house for a delicious ditty.ġ8. It was a triumph for the Diaspora when Gambian-British rapper Pa Salieu met Nigerian-British singer Obongjayar. Pa Salieu featuring Obongjayar, ’Style & Fashion’ (Diaspora (UK) & Gambia) ![]() There are enduring examples of such paradoxes like Cynthia Morgan’s ‘German Juice’, but when the homeland eventually catches on, it solidifies gains.ġ9. ![]() READ MORE 2020: A great year for Nigerian Afrobeats? ![]()
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