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June 21st was World Music Day, a time to celebrate and promote music and hither, Jacobs Odongo Seaman compiles the 100 greatest African songs of all time.

100. Testify Me The Fashion | Papa Wemba (Democratic Commonwealth of Congo)

Tikibadiye, that's what many hear Papa Wemba say in this 1995 hit. It's really "Take me past the hand." A young man wants to leave a life of crime and asks to exist helped to see the correct way of life, to be taken past the hand and shown the way to become.

99. Sodade | Cesaria Evora (Republic of cape verde)

There was a time Madonna performed Sodade at all her tours simply to pay tribute to Evora. The song is about migrant labourers from Portugal taken to Sao Tome. It'south that emotional letter the migrants and the loved ones they leave behind exchange.

98. Mamu Wenu | Tshala Muana (Democratic Republic Congo)

Mamu Wenu is mother in law. A woman is fed up with her mother in law's domineering manners. She has done a lot just Mamu Wenu doesn't appreciate information technology, so she tells her off at terminal.

97. Kazet | Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens (Due south Africa)

In his early life, Simon 'Mahlathini' Nkabinde's parents were worried near how deep his vocalisation was and took him to a sangoma to see if there was anything incorrect. He was only growing up. Grew upwards, he did, growling in between the harmonious tenors of Hilda Tloubatla, Nobesuthu Mbadu, and Mildred Mangxola. Kazet is just a gazette or cassette. The song celebrates music as a conduit for communal sharing of information.

96. Kunjani | Ricardo and Friends (South Africa)

Ricardo Groenewald'southward breakout anthology, I Beloved You Daddy, featured some top songs but none was as tricky as Kunjani (how is the going).

95. Yeke Yeke | Mory Kante (Guinea)

Mory Kante mixes languages -- Malinke, French, Managwa and others -- like a painter does colours. But it'south all an enamoured lover flattering the girl of his attention, calling her the motion-picture show star of his heart, the superstar...

94. Ndakuvara | Oliver Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe)

Ndakuvara means 'I got injured'. A man assumes that because all his other oxen had been like shooting fish in a barrel to train, this one volition be also. Just the ox rebels and kicks him. The man calls out to his wife for help. Tuku employs deep imagery. Beyond the ox, Ndakuvara is a alarm: Those who have been submissive in the by will non stay that style forever. Someone will rebel. And kicking y'all where it hurts most.

93. Nakomitunaka | Verckys (Democratic Republic Congo)

Verckys angered the Catholic Church in Zaire in 1971 with this composition that questions injustice against Blacks. He asks why everything good is depicted as white and the bad equally black. Adam and Eve were white, Jesus white, God is white, so what is the origin of the black peel?

92. Sina Mali, Sina Deni | Khadja Nin (Republic of burundi)

Khadja shows the comfort of having neither wealth nor debt yet exist content in your life, float like a butterfly, shine like a star, laugh like a infant... It'southward a seamless and stress-complimentary life when y'all've neither of those two 'burdens.'

91. Isencane | Platform I (South Africa)

This is a wedding vocal in which a woman laments that the bride is underage. "I will need a paw, who in their correct mind would ally this child who is still immature? My babe is too young to become married."

xc. Soweto Blues | Miriam Makeba (Southward Africa)

Released in 1977, Miriam Makeba'due south Soweto Blues was written by her ex-husband Hugh Masekela as a lament for the victims of the 1976 Soweto Massacre.

89. Maria Salome | Saida Karoli (Tanzania)

Saida earned herself a nickname Wanchekecha in Uganda where fans picked on the words from the lyrics of this 2001 hitting. The vocal, in Haya, is a tragic love story delivered through her captivating mellow and hypnotically rhythmic vocals.

88. Basiima Ogenze | Jose Chameleone (Uganda)

Released in 2010, Basiima Ogenze chides humanity for always waiting until someone is dead then starts pouring praises on them. People recollect you lot when y'all are gone, Chameleone says.

87. Kalayi Boeing | Wenge Musica (Autonomous Republic Congo)

This 'Bwingi' (Boeing) matter, according to Didier Masela, a founder fellow member, is almost "how nosotros became." These boys had gone to Brussels by plane. 'Tala Boeing' (look at the airplane) and tokobina (we're gonna dance). They praise their car, saying it flies on the road like a Boeing.

86. Jambo Bwana | Them Mushrooms (Kenya)

Hello Sir! Jambo Bwana, released in 1982, praises Kenya and welcomes visitors to the due east African country. It was widely picked up by hotels targeting tourists.

85. Nina | Pepe Kalle ft Nyboma (Democratic Democracy Congo)

Nina is about a woman who is happy to have found the right husband. She loves the man but faces the envy of others who desire them to separate. But she is determined to go along her human being and advises the envious villagers to confess their sins and pray so that God gives them a man who can affectionately call them 'Miss Nina Moseyi.'

84. I'one thousand in Honey (With A DJ) | Yvonne Chaka Chaka (South Africa)

If any DJ always complains that they are not appreciated, ask them to play 'Thank you Mr DJ or I'one thousand in Love and shut upwardly. It's that lonely moment when radio is your only companion and all y'all have to do is surrender to the DJ's disc.

83. Kiss No Frog | Lucky Dube (South Africa)

Life was non every bit like shooting fish in a barrel every bit finding a frog, kissing it, and hoping it would turn into a handsome prince. South Africans cozying upward to the Apartheid Whites only ended up in regrets.

82. Eswi yo Wapi | Mbilia Bel (Democratic Commonwealth of Congo)

Eswi yo wapi (Where does it hurt you?). A woman is done with her gossipy hubby who will sing praises of himself in the village for anything good he does for the wife but runs away when the woman is sick or has a problem. To remind him to leave her lonely, she says fifty-fifty the firm and car he gave her is him paying Adam's debt to Eve.

81. Ndona | Verckys and Veve (Autonomous Republic of Congo)

Like the maize by the roadside tale, Georges Mateta Kiamuangana is madly in love with Ndona merely hates it that she is the object of attention of every man. The grab in this 1973 song is that Vercky'due south mother had died and he wept while singing the chorus.

80. Chilen Koe | Monique Seka (Côte d'Ivoire)

This 1995 hitting talks near the dilemma of beloved with a deafened. The girl who can't hear can write, just the man cannot sympathise a thing, nor her linguistic communication. They cannot express themselves just he loves her deeply because he searched everywhere and found no love until he met her.

79. Hymeneals Day | Brenda Fassie (Southward Africa)

Christmas of 1989 was entirely a wedding. "I do, I do." That'southward how marriage is sealed. Brenda tells the bride she should feel so lucky to accept the man, experience so happy on her happiest mean solar day and but waltz into the wedding moment.

78. Kimpa Kisangameni | Franco ft TPOK (DR Congo)

Kimpa Kisangameni ways mysterious charms and Franco is telling his female parent to see the charms that enemies have brought to impale him. He says his brother Bavon Marie Marie (died in 1970) was killed by sorcerers.

77. Mayaval | Mbilia Bel (Autonomous Republic of Congo)

Marie Clare Mboyo sings most that friend nosotros all have, the one y'all allow into your habitation out of compassion, raising them as your relative, but for them to bite you. Mayaval, she says, goes telling her husband all sorts of lies to dissever the couple.

76. Sambolera | Khadja Nin (Burundi)

The Burundian has strong opinions about the so-called superpowers who want to determine how others live. Khadja subtly sings about malicious men with no pity who talk similar the world belongs to them. She says in the end these men will submit before God but when asked why they killed, they will say because of their colour. You lot know the color, right?

75. Sadou | Franco ft TPOK (Democratic Republic of Congo)

A human goes triumphantly cornball after coming together women who spent their youth ridiculing his love for Sadou. They used to ask Sadou to leave him, they brought men to lure her away, they said he was useless since his job was worthless. Just a few years down the road, he has become successful and now they envy Sadou who persevered in the union.

74. Lady | Fela Kuti (Nigeria)

Fela Kuti was a misogynist. He was brought up that way, he said in his bio. And he flaunts that chauvinism in this song, saying women today don't desire to exist called 'woman', that they are ladies. He complains about women saying they are equal to men and says his platonic adult female is one who cooks for him.

73. African Typic Collection | Sam Fan Thomas (Cameroon)

This 1984 hitting is about Africa'due south diversity; all the people with dissimilar roots and the different tribes in the continent. He adds music heritage to the list to say these brand Africa a typical collection. The song is a medley of sweet African rhythm with melody borrowed from Franco's Boma l'heure.

72. Chandra | Josky & TPOK (Autonomous Commonwealth of Congo)

If you have someone you love, get and tell them. Don't wait until they are gone and then you first regretting while playing Chandra. This, from 1990, is such a story.

71. Petit Pays | Cesaria Evora (Greatcoat Verde)

This Cape Verdian morna is a tribute to a motherland by an immigrant homesick and longing for his minor country that has morna and has coladera (both types of traditional music). The immigrant is full of praise of the motherland he misses.

70. Xanthous Mealie | Lumumba ft Condry Ziqubu (South Africa)

This vocal talks of the days when households would run out of maize flour and the families would exist forced to mingle the yellow (popcorn maize) flour for 'posho.'

69. Wale Wetu | Khadja Nin (Burundi)

Khadja says people should finish moaning about their state because they don't know the real face of poverty. That there are people who are very poor in this earth yet they don't cry, they don't beg. They just carry it. They sing even if they are sleeping hungry.

68. Nadina | Mbilia Bel (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Mbilia Bel implores us to take time and apologize to God, to pray even if in one case a week, to award God and to praise Him.

67. Lusa | Oliver Northward'Goma (Gabon)

Lusa is how Olivier N'Goma, aka Noli, pronounced his wife'southward proper name Louisa. She tells Lusa to not mind to rumours of neighbours considering they gossip like mosquitoes. He says the people are similar mosquitoes who whisper a lot in the ears before sucking 1'south blood.

66. Nakei Nairobi | Mbilia Bel (Democratic Republic of Congo)

The original version of Nakei Nairobi (I am going to Nairobi) was released in 1984 almost Duni (Elodie), a childhood friend she says is closer than a relative, closer like a twin sister, who had gone to stay in Nairobi. She has heard that this friend is suffering, so she says she will go over there to bring her back to Kinshasa.

In 1987, Moi banned strange music targeting Congolese rumba that dominated the airwaves. Tabu Ley tweaked the lyrics in Kiswahili, saying "Allow's go become to Nairobi, so we sing for Baba Moi." The ban was lifted.

Read: Almost music that Moi inspired and the songs that he muffled

65. Sweet Mother | Prince Nico Mbarga (Nigeria)

Forget the pidgin, the lyrics of this vocal, is a typical simplicity, like a child remembering all the details of what Mother did. When he cried, Mother carried him. If he was sick and could non slumber, Mother would not sleep either. Sweet Mother celebrates motherly devotion, praising a mother for her struggles and sacrifices in the upbringing of her child.

64. Taara | Baaba Maal (Senegal)

This 1997 release calls African music the voice of gods and ancestors and praises the quality, bravery and greatness of pre-colonial statesmen such every bit Omar Saidou Tall, a westward African pol who founded the short-lived Toucouleur Empire encompassing much of what is at present Republic of guinea, Senegal, and Mali.

63. Amour Chercher Amour | Antoine Manana (Democratic Commonwealth of Congo)

Beloved begets love. And boy, did Papa Disco spread love with this 1983 hitting! Papa Disco says it is the middle that searches and no 1 can deny the centre or finish information technology. The heart's quest for honey comes haphazardly with many inexplicable decisions just who is innocent?

62. Non | Franco (Democratic Commonwealth of Congo)

After being jailed for obscene songs 'Hellene' and 'Jackie' in 1978, Franco penned Non. Originally, the lyrics were a dig at a woman who had rejected him. But later band members such every bit Josky Kiambukuta refused to take part in it, Franco called on new recruit Madilu. He edited Not to a lament about the influx of wedlock that is based on ane-sided love.

61. Mamaland | Yvonne Chaka Chaka (Southward Africa)

Africa is our motherland just there is a human being who came to the continent and started exerting his influence, calling shots on what the African homo should practice. Chaka Chaka says this is our motherland, our roots are here in Africa and calls for a united front confronting the invaders.

threescore. Mokolo Nakokufa | Tabu Ley (Autonomous Republic of Congo)

This 1967 song is adapted from folklore, or more specifically, a dirge. Mokolo Nakokufa (the twenty-four hours I dice) gives perspectives of different persons on how their decease would be similar, the loved ones they will leave backside, the wealth or none thereof they volition exit behind, who volition mourn them...

59. Tuleke Tweliire (Obulo Bwaffe) | Tshaka Mayanja (Uganda)

Popularly known equally Nakato Leka, this is an infectious reggae release from 1993. Sang in Luganda, this folklore tells of a time of nutrient scarcity. Birds raided millet fields. A Nnalongo (mother of twins), sends out her twin daughters Nakato and Babirye to go chase away the birds from the field. The birds then sing to the twins, beseeching them (Tuleke) to allow them eat (Tweliire) some of the millet (Obulo).

58. Bane | Oliver Northward'Goma (Gabon)

Arguably Noli's most popular song that sold non him non just to Africa simply the rest of the earth. Bane means children and Noli is advising them to pay heed to what their parents tell them.

57. Premier Gaou | Magic System (Côte d'Ivoire)

Premier Gaou or 'First Fool' is based on Magic Arrangement lead singer Salif Traoré's true dearest story. Traore and girlfriend party like crazy on his little money. Then he runs out of greenbacks. The daughter leaves him. He strikes luck and becomes a glory then the girl returns asking for a second chance. He wants to kick her out only his groin rebels. He says to be used for the kickoff time is okay, but a second time no-no.

56. Vulindlela | Brenda Fassie (South Africa)

How do y'all get dorsum at gossipy neighbours who made a career out of mocking your son as someone who can never attract a adult female into union? Brenda Fassie had the reply in 1997. She yells at the gossipy neighbours to open up the door and make way because her son has got a bride and even warns them to not exist jealous.

55. I Love You Daddy | Ricardo and Friends (S. Africa)

There has probably non been a Fathers Day in Southward Africa similar that of 1988. It was on this twenty-four hours that Ricardo Groenewald released his beginning album, I Beloved You Daddy. From the perspective of an 8-year-former, this song touched hearts.

54. Kabasele en Memoriam | Franco and Tabu Ley (Democratic Republic of Congo)

A homage to Joseph Tshamala Kabaselle, aka Le Grand Kalle. Franco and Tabu Ley alternate their talents in this 1983 song. The 2 say "Nazuwa nganga wapi ye, asombela ngai liwa ya Kabaselle?" (where can I get a witchdoctor, to buy away the death of Kabaselle -- bring him back to life).

53. Sweetness Mama | Pat Shange (S. Africa)

Pat Shange is singing about a lover. He is seeing his love attending dancing in the gild and wishes she would come habitation and show him much more than than just that. But who calls a lover Sugariness Mama? The Mama is South Africa, the Apartheid one. The longing for that Mama to be the home that embraces its children with love.

52. Nyako Konya | Mangelepa (Kenya)

Nyako Konya means daughter help me. This song is a lament later marrying young and finding the going so tough ane contemplates suicide.

51. Dede Sur Mesure | Zaiko Langa Langa (Democratic Republic of Congo)

'Dede sur Mesure' means Dede fabricated special for me. The song was a dedication to Dede Kabaselle, one of Langa Langa faithful followers and relative to some former members of the group. In the song, we see the deep love for Dede and the earnest wish for that time they can go one.

50. Jabulani | PJ Powers (S Africa)

Jabulani is Zulu for rejoice or experience happy. The song was inspired by the Soweto concert of May 1982 where PJ Powers and her all-white ring performed in what turned out an anti-Apartheid concernt. Jabulani encourages the people to discover some happiness, to notice romance and live life in all the hardships they face up.

49. Wahito | Kanda Bongo Human being (Democratic Commonwealth of Congo)

Based on a true love story of Kanda and a Kenyan Rose Wambui Wahito. Kanda had met Wahito and fallen head over heels in love with her but he was banned from Kenya by the Moi government in 1991, intercepted sneaking in to meet Wahito at least twice and deported. In the mournful song, Kanda marvels at Wahito's dazzler and urges her to love him.

48. Stimela | Yvonne Chaka Chaka (S. Africa)

Stimela, which is how the steam engine railroad train was called, echoes the impatience with which South Africans awaited liberty. She questions if Due south Africans would ever reach their destination with the railroad train of freedom taking such 'kuchu kuchu' time to arrive. Thina sijahile -- we're in a hurry!

47. Maseke ya Meme | Bavon Marie Marie (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Bavon was Franco's younger blood brother. Maseke ya Meme is the horn of a sheep and laments nigh witchcraft in a family that is envious of his success then much that some have resorted to planting fetishes at his doorstep. He says "what wealth do I have? I do not have money, what are we fighting for? I am crying for my life, I am not tired of living, but they want me to die."

46. Soul Makossa | Manu Dibango (Cameroon)

From 1972 when information technology was released, Soul Makossa could not settle. It is so skillful its refrain was 'lifted' by Michael Jackson. Saxophonist and songwriter Dibango wrote the song to celebrate Cameroon'due south football prowess and the hosting of the Africa Loving cup of Nations.

Read: Remembering Afro-jazz icon Manu Dibango

45. Tekere | Salif Keita (Republic of mali)

Tekere ways handclapping your hands. Keita was born into a prominent royal family unit who are descendants of the 13th Century male monarch Sunjiata Keita who founded the Mandinka Empire in W Africa in 1240. Only Keita was born an albino and thus ostracized. Rejected past his father, he resorted to music. In Tekere, Keita praises his own journey through music.

44. Papa Bonheur | Koffi Olomide (Democratic Republic of Congo)

If you are thousands of miles away from domicile and sending greetings to your loved ones via the phone, you know it's sweet to tell your papa that all is well, wish them happiness, and reassure them that you are okay among the damsels in Brussels...

43. Tika Kolela | Kanda Bongo Human being (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Kanda'south Cantique (1987), would accept been it for its powerful gospel message calling on all to praise the Lord for all He has done, but Tika Kolela moves hearts with the way he urges Monique to stop crying considering he sincerely loves her.

42. Homeless | Lady Smith Mambazo (South Africa)

Although the song is considered past many every bit protest music, Joseph Shabalala the phrase 'nosotros are homeless' is similar to the words a Zulu uses when proposing to his bride.

41. Sina Makosa | Les Wanyika (Kenya)

Sina Makosa means I've not wronged y'all, why the resentment to the extent of wanting to kill me [for no reason]?

40. Victims | Lucky Dube (South. Africa)

Equally prophetic equally the vocal is, it tells of looking on as liberty fighters are killed by oppressors but eventually the victims turn on i another, making victims out of the already bleeding victims. Happens. Ask Due south Africans in the post-Apartheid.

39. Karibu Yangu | Tshala Muana (Democratic Commonwealth of Congo)

C'est ca, c'est ca, c'est ca (This is it, this is information technology). A woman welcomes a lover and urges him not to feel lonely anymore, to bring the helpmate price home to her parents and so that they can solemnise the matrimony. She ends it with a warning to not be swayed by wild talks lest one died lone.

38. Ya Jean | Madilu System (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Madilu's breakthrough album Sans Commentaire in 1993 was packed with juice and Ya Jean certainly isn't an adulterated one. A woman laments how her husband throws her out of marital bed on the basis of a dream he had that she was cheating.

37. Muchana | Kanda Bongo Man (Autonomous Republic of Congo)

Muchana is Swahili for the lord's day. It was inspired by Kanda'due south 1991 deportation from Kenya. As he was leaving nether heavy security, he was touched by the hundreds of fans who cried over his rude exit. "Okolela ngai tango nyonso, na Muchana? (Will you weep for me all day till sunset?).

The beauty of Muchana is that few ever intendance about the message, because Djena Mandako and Abby Surya do all the magic alongside Nene Tchakou'due south riffs.

36. Nantongo | Afrigo Band (Uganda)

Nantongo praises a woman in the simplest of ways. A man says of all the beautiful women he has seen, he has never met one every bit beautiful as Nantongo. He has gone to Lusaka of Zambia, was in Southward Africa and all over Kampala, people cry for Nantongo.

35. How Practise I Know (If She Loves Me) | Lucky Dube

So you love a adult female and madly and then only people say she is seeing someone else. You helplessly look on while moaning about how you would ever know if she loves y'all. The tragedy is that she was with yous but you failed to take your chances. To South Africans, it is like losing their land to whites and existence told the land is dating the whiteman.

34. Independence ChaCha | 1000 Kalle (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Independence Chacha was equanimous in January 1960 to celebrate DR Congo's independence. "Indépendance cha-cha, tozoui eastward, Oh! Kimpwanza cha-cha, tubakidi." (Independence, cha-cha, nosotros've won it, Oh! Independence cha-cha, we've achieved it.)

33. Sondela | Ringo Madlingozi (S Africa)

Of weddings, when yous shower your love with promises. Ringo's ballad says come close, dearest. A human being tells whoever is listening that she is the only one for him, and vows to never hurt her.

32. Ameyatchi | Mathey (Côte d'Ivoire)

Marie-Thérèse Kobla, aka Mathey, and Monique Seka have identical vocals. In Ameyatchi, a pleads with a friend to let her know what she could have done incorrect. 'Mbomi yonli wo nsê' (what did I practice to you?). She asks for forgiveness even without knowing what she did incorrect. Like when your partner goes on silent handling without you lot knowing why.

31. Boya ye | Mbilia Bel (Democratic Democracy of Congo)

Boya ye. Leave him. That's what a adult female says people keep telling her... to leave the jobless man. They say she has only 1 loincloth considering the human being is poor. But she says he is the father of her kids and she is willing to suffer for her kids' sake.

30. Clepo | Mathey (Côte d'Ivoire)

A mother is happy to see her child grow up. She asks men to aid mothers raise children, not to carelessness them. The song pays homage to children -- they are a blessing.

29. Shauri Yako | Nguashi N'Timbo (Democratic Commonwealth of Congo)

Shauri Yako is Swahili for "it's your problem." A human being is telling his wife Zena Fatou to go to hell because she demands an expensive lifestyle that is beyond his ways. He says his ways and her means are incompatible, he will not proceed borrowing, steal, or impale to finance her expensive lifestyle. If Fatou cannot capeesh him as he is, then she should be gone for adept.

28. La Musique | Rrum Tah (Cameroon)

"The music was playing, playing | And anybody was dancing and dancing | And everyone was very happy." That is the chorus, near a partying moment filled with good music that creates an atmosphere of joy and unity in the village.

27. Agolo | Angelique Kidjo (Benin)

Agolo is done in Fon gbe, a Benian language. The song is a celebration of Mother Earth, a song of hope and a call to the expert powers of nature. "You lot hear it a lot when someone has a large load in the market and then they go 'agolo agolo agolo'. Make mode. So I chosen the song Agolo considering our Mother Nature demands some attention from us," she told Cape Argus in 2017.

26. Awa Awa | Wes (Cameroon)

Off Wes Madiko's debut album, Walenga, in 1996, Awa Awa says the best way to live is in harmony, in peace with one another. That we all get together around the earth, trip the light fantastic toe the dance of peace. Whatever the color of our peel or our culture, our religion, nosotros can exit all such things at the border of the desert, forgive each other and dance the dance of peace.

25. Sacramento | Tabu Ley (Democratic Democracy of Congo)

From Tabu Ley'southward duet with Canta Nyboma in 1986, a sacrament of dear is that sacred deed you lot can fulfill with your own 'santo lamu' (saint of love). It is a gospel song about that time for penitence for earthly transgressions.

24. Nzele | Madilu (Democratic Republic of Congo)

From Sans Commentaire album in 1993, a man bemoans how his marriage to Nzele broke up considering of gossip. Agape of the way the wedlock was going, he rings some rules for Nzele and reminds her that if she broke them, the gossips volition express joy at him. She gets tempted, leaving the homo in regrets.

23. Nafkot | Aster Aweke (Federal democratic republic of ethiopia)

Singing in Amric, Nafkot is near her honey for her man who is abroad. You could feel the longing in her voice, the hurting and all. But for Aster who lived in self-exile in America for nearly two decades, that love could also exist for her motherland.

22. Malaika | Miriam Makeba (Due south Africa)

Equanimous by Tanzanian musician Adam Salim in 1945 only Kenyan Fadhili William was the first person to record the vocal in 1963 and since Salim did non put a copyright to it, the vocal has been redone past dozens of musicians. Miriam recorded her single in 1974 and popularised this story of a beau who cannot afford a lover'southward request bride-toll. All he can do now is sing his dear...

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21. Maze | Tabu Ley (Autonomous Republic of Congo)

I love you, baby bear on me is virtually a adult female of love involvement, with the suitor lavishing all sorts of praises. He even says Maze's face looks like five O'Clock. Ley ends the applause with 'I honey y'all, baby touch on me, Oui, je suis a toi, cherie pense moi' (Yes, I'm yours, think of me.)

xx. Ndaya | Mpongo Honey (Democratic Republic of Congo)

This 1976 ballad is as soothing equally morning dew. The vocal criticises polygamy as Mpongo says she will non share her Ndaya with any other woman, that her marriage is one for her alone. She says her love with Ndaya is similar the relationship betwixt a trouser and a chugalug.

19. Luvi Wami | Platform 1 (South Africa)

Too called Lezontaba, Luvi Wami, means my darling. A lover feels lonely, looks at a loma in the distance and says information technology brings back all the fond memories of Luvi Wami because they used to go at that place.

18. Todii | Oliver Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe)

Tuku sings Todii in Shona, Ndebele and English language. Todii is an HIV/Aids awareness song taken off the Tuku Music album. In the vocal, Tuku laments the death price acquired by the affliction, punctuated with the heavy question, what shall we do?

17. Tarihinda | Cecile Kayirebwa (Rwanda)

Tarihinda is an exhortation and encouragement to the pleasance of dancing, singing, and reciting poems with joy and happiness. It celebrates Rwandan civilization. Kayirebwa pays tribute to famous artists, dancers, inanga (Rwandan traditional instrument) players and singers.

16. Zamina mina | Zangalewa (Cameroon)

The longest song you will never want to hear ends. You could listen to it from 1986 when it was released to the fourth dimension of reading this and nevertheless take no qualms at all. Zangalewa band members were in the Republic of cameroon army and this song, in pidgin, French, Douala and 'broken' English, was done for comic relief by the war machine recruits detailing the situation in the army camp.

Tsaminamina means come and waka waka is pidgin for 'walk while working.' No slacking. They lament about the hardships in the army, the bad food even so coin no deh . Amid all these, they say human no run (they won't give up).

15. Sinzia | Nameless (Republic of kenya)

Nasinzia is to autumn asleep. Nameless goes bonkers in this 2005 hit with praises that borders on insanity. He reels off phrases to emphasise her dazzler, saying he wished he was her body lotion to enjoy her skin, or her shoes to see the view upwards, or saliva to taste her lips...

14. Wombo Lombo | Angelique Kidjo (Benin)

This 1996 song wouldn't be on this list if simply for its lyrics simply it is here because information technology must be. The vocal is for the spirit of a trip the light fantastic toe, 1 so enchanting no man should merely be continuing yet there is one such. Exercise yous think anyone else can do information technology?

13. Mamou | Franco & TPOK (Democratic Commonwealth of Congo)

A adult female laments about her friend (Mamou) for whom she covers merely Mamou goes around blaming this adult female for her woes. Mamou is a cheat but tells her husband that every other man she is found with is her friend's boyfriend. Yet Mamou goes around blaming the same friend for her marital woes.

12. Mama | Khadja Nin (Republic of burundi)

Khadja pays tribute to mothers for all they accept to put upward with for their family, day and night. That even when they heighten their vocalisation or hand at their children, they exercise so to protect them.

11. Think Me | Lucky Dube (S. Africa)

From 1989 to all the men who sire children, exit them with their mother and motility 'disappear'. Lucky Dube brings out the cruelty of rural urban migration on families as fathers go to look for jobs, leaving behind children yearning for them.

ten. Muzina | Tabu Ley (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Muzina. In the name. Probably Ley's final real installment and it was similar he had saved the best for last. A gospel tune with a sebene that is terrific for the dance flooring. Ley exhorts anybody to pray to God, praise God and thank God for his blessings.

9. Mama | Brenda Fassie (Due south. Africa)

From the anthology by the same championship released in 1994, Brenda Fassie pays the ultimate tribute to her mother Sarah Fassie. This is a dirge like no other.

8. From Me To You | Yvonne Chaka Chaka (S. Africa)

From 1987 to-date, you can however hear Chaka Chaka spread love with this infectious pop hit. She asks us to join her in finding the dearest and peace we one time knew, and to spread them.

7. 7 Seconds | Youssou Northward'Dour ft Neneh Cherry (Senegal)

Red suggested co-writing an anti-racism song. seven Seconds' title refers to the first moments of a kid's life, as Carmine put information technology, "not knowing about the problems and violence in our world."

6. There is an Answer | PJ Powers (S. Africa)

'At that place Is An Answer' urges South Africans to accept that at that place is notwithstanding a chance to share their motherland's dear with all. The song solemnly asks the invisible hands to assist S Africans to put the past behind them.

5. Pata Pata | Miriam Makeba (South Africa)

First recorded in 1959 as Phata Phata, Mama Africa redid the song in 1969, added a few English words similar "Every Friday and Sat dark, information technology's Pata Pata fourth dimension." It became an instant hit globally. This is a song well-nigh a flirtatious dance move. 'Pata' translates as 'low-cal touch.'

4. Call up About the Children | Lucky Dube (Due south. Africa)

Lucky Dube'southward passion about family values continues in this hitting from 1989 in which he bemoans the fate of children born without parental care and guidance. They are born to suffer because they accept no 1 to show them correct and wrong.

3. Mario | Franco (Democratic Democracy of Congo)

Mario was inspired by a Portuguese gigolo acquaintance of Franco. It is about a young man who, despite his education, prefers to live off the earnings of sugar mummies. Franco urges Mario to look for ane woman to marry instead of attending to older women.

2. Alone | Philly Bongoley Lutaaya (Uganda)

Lutaaya's greatest song near HIV/Aids. Alone, from his last album in 1989 titled Alone and Frightened, preaches nearly the disease and calls on the people non to shun the afflicted who only demand love and hope.

1. God Anoint the Woman | Lucky Dube (Southward Africa)

We praise heroes everyday, just nosotros forget to praise, the women of this earth... The mournful voice with which Dube executes this 1995 song would leave any adult female weeping. Now imagine the children yearning to meet their father...

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