Video: Puppets and Music (No, not singing puppets!)
After a series of Facebook links this is what caught our eye this week:
Lokua Kanza and Nakozonga from the Congolese artist's latest album Nkolo (meaning God). He returns to Congo for the album after years in self-imposed exile. Kanza claims he wrote the song to talk about hope, about one day returning home. We say, beautiful in the least.
Lira Lira Lira
All the message said was, 'this ought to be featured on your site!'. We couldn't agree more. The beautiful music South African artiste Lira Molapo creates is exciting, soothing, electrifying and oddly nostaligic. It fuses African grooves with jazzy beats. You cannot go wrong with a song called Feel Good!
Check out her playlist out on Museke, the blog for the African music fan, HERE.
Finally, The Puppets!
You might know them as Shakira's back-up band in the World Cup's Waka Waka theme song. Or if you happened to be in the loop like all of us enlightened folk here is the latest single from their fourth studio album, Radio Africa, Chicken to Change. The video features Uncle Bob himself. The band teamed up with ZA News,the super funny political satire show from South Africa (with occassional comment on Zimbabwe!), to make the video. More videos can be found on their website .
Pattni, the Con Man, on XYZ Cribs. If you know about Kenya's Anglo-Fleecing Scandal and the Mau Forest 'Drama' then you should be well acquainted with Mr. Pattni himself!
The XYZ show is the original African political satire show, or so they claim. Check out other clips and webisodes on their Youtube page.
Share with us what caught your eye on the web over the week and drop us a line!
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