Music
Nass El Ghiwane: the Moroccan band once called the Rolling Stones of Africa
Nass El Ghiwane formed in Casablanca in the early 1970s and transformed Moroccan popular music with songs drawing…
protest songs
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Eric Wainaina and Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo: the song that called out Kenya’s bribe culture
Kenyan singer-songwriter Eric Wainaina released Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo in 2001, a song about the small bribes demanded…
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Mohammed Wardi: Sudan’s great singer, Nubian voice and voice of protest
Mohammed Wardi, born in Nubia in northern Sudan in 1932, became the most celebrated singer in Sudan, singing…