Africa-Southern Hemisphere Archives - Beautiful Song Of The Week

December 1

Week 812: “Ngum Nya Ko” by Toto Bona Lokua

The moment I heard this song, I was excited to look up the lyrics. The…

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February 3

Week 769: “Feira de Mangaio” by The Kiffness and Mari Merenda

I’ve decided that the next instrument I’m going to learn to play is the asalato.…

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October 14

Week 753: “Grow” by Facesoul

Generally, watching a performer push buttons doesn’t fill me with respect for their musicianship, but…

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October 16

Week 701: “Mulberry Mouse” by Alan Gogoll

Ask most of us what we know about Tasmania and we might be able to…

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February 6

Week 665: “The Less I Know the Better” by Tame Impala

As band names go, it doesn’t get much better than “Tame Impala.” To start with,…

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April 4

Week 621: “My Angel (Malaika)” by Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba’s story is incredible, and can’t be adequately summed up in a few-hundred-word blog…

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January 24

Week 611: “Magnificent Moon” by Lucien Johnson

I’m starting to recognize that within the jazz genre, I’m a bit of a sucker…

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January 3

Week 608: “Enchanted Mirror” by Luiz Bonfá

When the bossa nova craze swept through the jazz world in the 1950s, it swept…

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November 1

Week 599: “Tell Me” by Blick Bassy

Blick Bassy’s home country of Cameroon is an interesting place. For starters, it has a…

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April 5

Week 569: “Walk Above the City” by Paper Kites feat. MARO

When I was about eight, my godmother (who was more like a cool aunt or…

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January 4

Week 556: “Ceffylau” by Catlin Finch and Seckou Keita

The coat of arms of Swansea, the second-largest city in Wales, is as elaborate as…

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December 28

Week 555: “All the Rest” by sad face

Last week, after recommending that people go out and try to spot the ultra-rare Jupiter-Saturn…

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September 23

Week 489: “Tales of Africa” by Saib

Depending on which travel blog you choose to believe, Casablanca is either the best or…

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August 19

Week 484: “Oscarine” by Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal

In my 20s, I was in the early days of a relationship with a woman…

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June 3

Week 473: “I Carried This For Years” by Ibeyi

A good friend of mine has two siblings: his twin brother, and their older sister.…

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November 5

Week 443: “Intro” by Bongeziwe Mabandla

Languages are dying out. Every year, more and more are added to the extinction list.…

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August 6

Week 430: “All Your Love” by Dustin Tebbutt

John Venn is the mathematician and philosopher most remembered for inventing the diagrams that bear…

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July 16

Week 427: “One More” by Cymande

Bands get discovered in a lot of different ways; auditions, word-of-mouth, demo tapes. But music…

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June 11

Week 422: “Homesickness, part 2” by Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Gebrou

Emahoy Tseque-Maryam Gebrou has led quite a life. To be fair, most people who live…

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August 14

Week 379: “Howling” by RY X

Until recently, there were only two things I knew about the howling of wolves: that…

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