Peter Gabriel’s Biko (Wakafrika – 1994)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/peter-gabriel-biko-manu-dibango-wakafrika/
This version of Peter Gabriel’s Biko is on Manu Dibango‘s Wakafrika album (1994).
Edited 38d ago
southafrica
The politics of South African sound
From #Kwaito to #Amapiano, South African music is a bridge between past and present, where cultural memory, resistance, and reinvention collide on the dancefloor.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/03/the-politics-of-south-african-sound
The Mozambican band 340ml is back on stage after almost 15 years.
They started as a backup band for hiphop acts, before releasing 2 albums, Moving (2003) and Sorry For The Delay (2008).
Midnight (from album Moving)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YssYhusEs4I
Yvonne Chaka Chaka – Umqombothi
#TGIF! Thank God, It’s Friday!
“Umqombothi” (the name in Xhosa of a traditional beer) is a famous track by Yvonne Chaka Chaka, from her “Thank You Mr. D.J.” studio album, released in 1987.It was composed by Sello “Chicco” Twala and Attie van Wyk.
Edited 22d ago
Cassper Nyovest – Ksazobalit
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cassper-nyovest-ksazobalit/
Ksazobalit (K’Sazobalit) is a song by Cassper Nyovest in 2018, where he imagines “The Day we Take Back Our Land”.
"The rapper’s tongue-in-cheek video takes inspiration from the memes and tweets about what black South Africans will do with it when land that was stolen from them by colonialists is returned."
Okayafrica
Edited 17d ago
Zawadi Yamungu performing Ngimuhle live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Q68lIF838
Official audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bBa6VTmNM4
Sathima Bea Benjamin – Winnie Mandela Beloved Heroine
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sathima-bea-benjamin-winnie-mandela-beloved-heroine/
About Beloved Heroine in an interview with Carol Ann Muller in Musical Echoes:
“I wanted to write this song for Winnie [Mandela], because I absolutely identified with her,” says Benjamin. “I could feel her pain,” Benjamin writes of her subject’s “soft, gentle eyes reflecting those unshed tears”.
Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela
26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018
Edited 16d ago
Confused Love - Billy Monama
Live at Soweto Theatre - 02/2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HLvWHBhypE
Internet Girl - Treat Him Like A Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czpckDF20s
A Cape Town band, mixing electronica, pop-rock & trap.
Sisonke Xonti – uGaba the Migration
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sisonke-xonti-ugaba-migration/
Saxophonist and composer Sisonke Xonti, winner of South Africa’s 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz, released “uGaba the Migration” in 2020, that includes a four-part “Migration Suite”, exploring rural and urban identity and the perilous spiritual journey from homeland to the global village.
Edited 6d ago
Nakhane - Killer '25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_3231Y795g
More music: https://amf.didiermary.fr/?s=nakhane
Edited 3d ago