Shaggy 'Intoxication'

Bonafide Girl feat. Rik Rok, from the new album by Shaggy 'Intoxication' from VP Records/Big Yard Music Group.

RIP Lucky Dube

One of the most well-known reggae singers, Lucky Dube, was murdered yesterday in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dube, who was born in Ermelo, Mpumalanga on August 3, 1964, got hijacked and shot. According to a witness, the hijackers opened the musician's door and shot him twice.
Lucky Dube released over 20 albums in his musical career and toured a lot internationally.
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Junior K. from Gambia


The Gambia is a hotspot for countless reggae talents. Junior King out of Kololi is one of them. His voice reminds of bignames like Turbulence, Sizzla or Jah Mason. Listen to "Tell me why" on his myspace.

Senegal musicians gallery

Please have a look at Green Eyez's photostream about Senegal and many of its musicians. Beautyful shots!

Fela Kuti birthday

This monday, on the 15th of October, it would be Fela Kutis birthday. Afrofunk asks, what he would sing about nowadays:

No doubt he would include many of the same themes that he addressed during his lifetime: the ongoing exploitation of Africa in general and Nigeria in particular by the wealthy and powerful, from London to Lagos, Washington to Kinshasha; the sorrowful indifference of the governments in industrialized nations to the poverty, inequality and suffering their development models bring to much of the world; the madness of the war in Iraq; the unending massacres in Darfur and Congo.

I think Fela would certainly still be addressing the agonizing persistence of torture and inhumanity in prisons around the world, as a victim of military brutality himself. And I hope he would have turned his immense charisma and musical power toward addressing AIDS prevention and education.

Read the full article on Afrofunk.
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