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June 21st was Globe Music Twenty-four hours, a time to gloat and promote music and here, Jacobs Odongo Seaman compiles the 100 greatest African songs of all time.

100. Testify Me The Style | Papa Wemba (Autonomous Democracy of Congo)

Tikibadiye, that'southward what many hear Papa Wemba say in this 1995 hit. It's actually "Take me by the hand." A young man wants to go out a life of crime and asks to be helped to see the correct style of life, to be taken by the hand and shown the way to go.

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. Information technology'due south that emotional letter of the alphabet the migrants and the loved ones they go out behind exchange.

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

Mamu Wenu is mother-in-law. A woman is fed upwards with her mother in law'south domineering manners. She has washed a lot simply Mamu Wenu doesn't capeesh information technology, so she tells her off at concluding.

97. Kazet | Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens (South Africa)

In his early life, Simon 'Mahlathini' Nkabinde'southward parents were worried about how deep his vocalism was and took him to a sangoma to see if there was anything wrong. He was only growing up. Grew up, he did, growling in betwixt 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 data.

96. Kunjani | Ricardo and Friends (S Africa)

Ricardo Groenewald's breakout album, I Love You Daddy, featured some summit songs but none was as catchy 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. Merely it's 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 homo assumes that because all his other oxen had been like shooting fish in a barrel to train, this one will be too. But 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 warning: Those who have been submissive in the past will not stay that way forever. Someone will insubordinate. And kick you where it hurts near.

93. Nakomitunaka | Verckys (Democratic Republic Congo)

Verckys angered the Cosmic Church building in Zaire in 1971 with this limerick that questions injustice against Blacks. He asks why everything good is depicted every bit 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 be content in your life, float like a butterfly, smooth like a star, express mirth like a infant... Information technology's a seamless and stress-free life when you've neither of those 2 'burdens.'

91. Isencane | Platform One (South Africa)

This is a wedding vocal in which a woman laments that the bride is underage. "I will need a mitt, who in their right mind would marry this kid who is still young? My baby is as well young to get married."

90. Soweto Blues | Miriam Makeba (South Africa)

Released in 1977, Miriam Makeba's Soweto Blues was written past her ex-hubby Hugh Masekela equally 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 hit. The song, 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 call back you when you are gone, Chameleone says.

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

This 'Bwingi' (Boeing) thing, co-ordinate to Didier Masela, a founder fellow member, is almost "how we became." These boys had gone to Brussels past airplane. 'Tala Boeing' (await at the aeroplane) and tokobina (we're gonna dance). They praise their car, saying it flies on the road similar a Boeing.

86. Jambo Bwana | Them Mushrooms (Republic of kenya)

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

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

Nina is almost a woman who is happy to accept found the right husband. She loves the human being simply faces the envy of others who want them to separate. But she is determined to proceed her man and advises the envious villagers to confess their sins and pray then that God gives them a human who tin affectionately call them 'Miss Nina Moseyi.'

84. I'yard in Love (With A DJ) | Yvonne Chaka Chaka (South Africa)

If any DJ e'er complains that they are not appreciated, ask them to play 'Give thanks You Mr DJ or I'm in Honey and shut up. It'southward that lonely moment when radio is your only companion and all yous have to practice is surrender to the DJ'southward disc.

83. Buss No Frog | Lucky Dube (Southward Africa)

Life was not equally easy as finding a frog, kissing it, and hoping it would turn into a handsome prince. South Africans cozying upward to the Apartheid Whites merely concluded upward in regrets.

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

Eswi yo wapi (Where does it hurt yous?). A woman is done with her gossipy hubby who will sing praises of himself in the village for anything practiced he does for the married woman just runs abroad when the adult female is ill or has a problem. To remind him to leave her alone, she says even the house and auto he gave her is him paying Adam's debt to Eve.

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

Similar the maize by the roadside tale, Georges Mateta Kiamuangana is madly in dear with Ndona merely hates it that she is the object of attending of every homo. The catch in this 1973 song is that Vercky's mother had died and he wept while singing the chorus.

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

This 1995 hit talks most the dilemma of love with a deafened. The girl who tin't hear can write, but the homo cannot understand a thing, nor her language. They cannot limited themselves merely he loves her deeply because he searched everywhere and found no beloved until he met her.

79. Wedding Day | Brenda Fassie (Due south Africa)

Christmas of 1989 was entirely a wedding. "I practise, I practice." That's how marriage is sealed. Brenda tells the bride she should feel and so lucky to have the man, experience so happy on her happiest day and simply 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 take brought to impale him. He says his brother Bavon Marie Marie (died in 1970) was killed by sorcerers.

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

Marie Clare Mboyo sings nigh that friend we all take, the 1 yous allow into your home out of pity, raising them as your relative, but for them to bite you. Mayaval, she says, goes telling her husband all sorts of lies to separate the couple.

76. Sambolera | Khadja Nin (Republic of burundi)

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

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

A homo goes triumphantly nostalgic after meeting women who spent their youth ridiculing his honey for Sadou. They used to enquire Sadou to leave him, they brought men to lure her away, they said he was useless since his job was worthless. But a few years downwardly the road, he has become successful and now they envy Sadou who persevered in the spousal relationship.

74. Lady | Fela Kuti (Nigeria)

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

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

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

72. Chandra | Josky & TPOK (Democratic Democracy of Congo)

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

71. Petit Pays | Cesaria Evora (Cape 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. Yellow Mealie | Lumumba ft Condry Ziqubu (Due south Africa)

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

69. Wale Wetu | Khadja Nin (Burundi)

Khadja says people should stop 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 but behave it. They sing even if they are sleeping hungry.

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

Mbilia Bel implores us to take fourth dimension and repent to God, to pray fifty-fifty if once a calendar week, to honor God and to praise Him.

67. Lusa | Oliver Due north'Goma (Gabonese republic)

Lusa is how Olivier N'Goma, aka Noli, pronounced his wife's proper noun Louisa. She tells Lusa to non mind to rumours of neighbours because they gossip similar mosquitoes. He says the people are like mosquitoes who whisper a lot in the ears before sucking one's claret.

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

The original version of Nakei Nairobi (I am going to Nairobi) was released in 1984 most 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 at that place to bring her back to Kinshasa.

In 1987, Moi banned foreign music targeting Congolese rumba that dominated the airwaves. Tabu Ley tweaked the lyrics in Kiswahili, proverb "Let'southward go go to Nairobi, so nosotros sing for Baba Moi." The ban was lifted.

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

65. Sweet Mother | Prince Nico Mbarga (Nigeria)

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

64. Taara | Baaba Maal (Senegal)

This 1997 release calls African music the vox of gods and ancestors and praises the quality, bravery and greatness of pre-colonial statesmen such every bit Omar Saidou Tall, a due west African political leader who founded the curt-lived Toucouleur Empire encompassing much of what is now Guinea, Senegal, and Mali.

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

Love begets honey. And boy, did Papa Disco spread dearest with this 1983 striking! Papa Disco says it is the heart that searches and no ane can deny the heart or stop it. The heart'due south quest for love comes haphazardly with many inexplicable decisions only who is innocent?

62. Non | Franco (Democratic Democracy 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 after band members such as Josky Kiambukuta refused to have role in it, Franco called on new recruit Madilu. He edited Not to a lament almost the influx of marriage that is based on one-sided love.

61. Mamaland | Yvonne Chaka Chaka (Due south Africa)

Africa is our motherland simply there is a man who came to the continent and started exerting his influence, calling shots on what the African man should practise. Chaka Chaka says this is our motherland, our roots are here in Africa and calls for a united front end against the invaders.

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

This 1967 song is adjusted from folklore, or more specifically, a dirge. Mokolo Nakokufa (the day I die) gives perspectives of unlike persons on how their expiry would be like, the loved ones they volition leave backside, the wealth or none thereof they volition leave backside, who will mourn them...

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

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

58. Bane | Oliver N'Goma (Gabon)

Arguably Noli'southward most popular song that sold not him not only to Africa but the remainder of the earth. Bane means children and Noli is advising them to pay listen to what their parents tell them.

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

Premier Gaou or 'Starting time Fool' is based on Magic Arrangement lead singer Salif Traoré's true love story. Traore and girlfriend party similar crazy on his little coin. Then he runs out of greenbacks. The girl leaves him. He strikes luck and becomes a celebrity so the girl returns asking for a second run a risk. He wants to kick her out but his groin rebels. He says to be used for the get-go time is okay, but a second time no-no.

56. Vulindlela | Brenda Fassie (South Africa)

How do you get dorsum at gossipy neighbours who made a career out of mocking your son every bit someone who tin can never attract a woman into marriage? 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 be jealous.

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

There has probably non been a Fathers Day in South Africa like that of 1988. Information technology was on this day that Ricardo Groenewald released his first album, I Dear You Daddy. From the perspective of an 8-year-old, this vocal touched hearts.

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

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

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

Pat Shange is singing most a lover. He is seeing his love attention dancing in the club and wishes she would come home and evidence him much more than just that. But who calls a lover Sweet Mama? The Mama is South Africa, the Apartheid one. The longing for that Mama to be the dwelling house that embraces its children with dear.

52. Nyako Konya | Mangelepa (Kenya)

Nyako Konya means girl help me. This song is a lament subsequently marrying young and finding the going and so tough 1 contemplates suicide.

51. Dede Sur Mesure | Zaiko Langa Langa (Autonomous Commonwealth of Congo)

'Dede sur Mesure' ways Dede made special for me. The song was a dedication to Dede Kabaselle, 1 of Langa Langa faithful followers and relative to some former members of the grouping. In the song, we see the deep love for Dede and the earnest wish for that time they tin can become one.

50. Jabulani | PJ Powers (S Africa)

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

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

Based on a truthful 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 regime in 1991, intercepted sneaking in to meet Wahito at to the lowest degree twice and deported. In the mournful song, Kanda marvels at Wahito'southward beauty and urges her to dearest him.

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

Stimela, which is how the steam engine train was called, echoes the impatience with which S Africans awaited liberty. She questions if South Africans would ever reach their destination with the 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 about witchcraft in a family that is envious of his success so much that some take resorted to planting fetishes at his doorstep. He says "what wealth do I accept? 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 it was released, Soul Makossa could not settle. It is so good its refrain was 'lifted' by Michael Jackson. Saxophonist and songwriter Dibango wrote the song to celebrate Cameroon'southward football prowess and the hosting of the Africa Cup of Nations.

Read: Remembering Afro-jazz icon Manu Dibango

45. Tekere | Salif Keita (Mali)

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

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

If you lot are thousands of miles away from dwelling house 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 yous are okay among the damsels in Brussels...

43. Tika Kolela | Kanda Bongo Man (Democratic Democracy of Congo)

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

42. Homeless | Lady Smith Mambazo (South Africa)

Although the vocal is considered by many equally protestation music, Joseph Shabalala the phrase 'we 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 (S. Africa)

Equally prophetic as the song is, it tells of looking on as freedom fighters are killed past oppressors but eventually the victims turn on i another, making victims out of the already bleeding victims. Happens. Ask S Africans in the post-Apartheid.

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

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

38. Ya Jean | Madilu System (Autonomous Democracy 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 married man 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 sun. Information technology was inspired by Kanda's 1991 displacement from Kenya. As he was leaving under heavy security, he was touched by the hundreds of fans who cried over his rude exit. "Okolela ngai tango nyonso, na Muchana? (Volition y'all cry for me all day till sunset?).

The beauty of Muchana is that few always care well-nigh the bulletin, considering Djena Mandako and Abby Surya do all the magic alongside Nene Tchakou's riffs.

36. Nantongo | Afrigo Ring (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 as beautiful as Nantongo. He has gone to Lusaka of Zambia, was in South Africa and all over Kampala, people cry for Nantongo.

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

And so y'all love a woman and madly so but people say she is seeing someone else. Yous helplessly look on while moaning about how you would ever know if she loves you. The tragedy is that she was with you but you failed to take your chances. To South Africans, information technology is similar losing their land to whites and being told the land is dating the whiteman.

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

Independence Chacha was equanimous in January 1960 to celebrate DR Congo's independence. "Indépendance cha-cha, tozoui due east, Oh! Kimpwanza cha-cha, tubakidi." (Independence, cha-cha, nosotros've won it, Oh! Independence cha-cha, nosotros've accomplished information technology.)

33. Sondela | Ringo Madlingozi (South Africa)

Of weddings, when y'all shower your dear with promises. Ringo's ballad says come shut, beloved. A man tells whoever is listening that she is the only i 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 wrong. 'Mbomi yonli wo nsê' (what did I do to yous?). She asks for forgiveness even without knowing what she did wrong. Like when your partner goes on silent handling without you knowing why.

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

Boya ye. Leave him. That'southward what a woman says people keep telling her... to leave the jobless homo. They say she has only one loincloth because the human is poor. But she says he is the male parent of her kids and she is willing to suffer for her kids' sake.

30. Clepo | Mathey (Côte d'Ivoire)

A female parent is happy to run into her child grow upwardly. She asks men to assistance mothers heighten children, not to carelessness them. The song pays homage to children -- they are a blessing.

29. Shauri Yako | Nguashi Due north'Timbo (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Shauri Yako is Swahili for "information technology's your problem." A human is telling his wife Zena Fatou to become to hell because she demands an expensive lifestyle that is across his means. He says his means and her ways are incompatible, he will non continue borrowing, steal, or kill to finance her expensive lifestyle. If Fatou cannot capeesh him as he is, so she should exist gone for good.

28. La Musique | Rrum Tah (Republic of cameroon)

"The music was playing, playing | And everyone was dancing and dancing | And everyone was very happy." That is the chorus, near a partying moment filled with good music that creates an temper 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 practiced powers of nature. "You hear it a lot when someone has a big load in the market and then they get 'agolo agolo agolo'. Make manner. So I called the song Agolo considering our Female parent 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 all-time way to live is in harmony, in peace with i another. That nosotros all gather effectually the world, trip the light fantastic toe the dance of peace. Any the color of our skin or our culture, our religion, nosotros can go out all such things at the edge of the desert, forgive each other and trip the light fantastic the dance of peace.

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

From Tabu Ley'south duet with Canta Nyboma in 1986, a sacrament of honey is that sacred deed you can fulfill with your own 'santo lamu' (saint of honey). Information technology is a gospel vocal about that time for penitence for earthly transgressions.

24. Nzele | Madilu (Democratic Commonwealth of Congo)

From Sans Commentaire album in 1993, a man bemoans how his marriage to Nzele broke up because of gossip. Afraid of the fashion the marriage was going, he rings some rules for Nzele and reminds her that if she broke them, the gossips will laugh at him. She gets tempted, leaving the human being in regrets.

23. Nafkot | Aster Aweke (Ethiopia)

Singing in Amric, Nafkot is about her love for her human who is away. You could feel the longing in her voice, the hurting and all. But for Aster who lived in self-exile in America for nearly 2 decades, that love could as well be for her motherland.

22. Malaika | Miriam Makeba (Due south Africa)

Composed by Tanzanian musician Adam Salim in 1945 only Kenyan Fadhili William was the kickoff person to tape the song in 1963 and since Salim did non put a copyright to it, the song has been redone past dozens of musicians. Miriam recorded her single in 1974 and popularised this story of a young human being who cannot afford a lover's asking helpmate-price. All he can do now is sing his dear...

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21. Maze | Tabu Ley (Democratic Commonwealth of Congo)

I love you, infant touch on me is about a adult female of dear involvement, with the suitor lavishing all sorts of praises. He fifty-fifty says Maze'due south face looks like five O'Clock. Ley ends the applause with 'I dear you, baby touch me, Oui, je suis a toi, cherie pense moi' (Yep, I'chiliad yours, think of me.)

xx. Ndaya | Mpongo Love (Democratic Democracy of Congo)

This 1976 carol is as soothing as morning dew. The vocal criticises polygamy equally Mpongo says she will not share her Ndaya with any other woman, that her marriage is 1 for her solitary. She says her love with Ndaya is like the human relationship between a trouser and a belt.

19. Luvi Wami | Platform I (South Africa)

As well called Lezontaba, Luvi Wami, means my darling. A lover feels lonely, looks at a loma in the distance and says it brings back all the fond memories of Luvi Wami considering they used to go there.

eighteen. Todii | Oliver Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe)

Tuku sings Todii in Shona, Ndebele and English. Todii is an HIV/Aids sensation vocal taken off the Tuku Music album. In the song, Tuku laments the death toll caused past the disease, punctuated with the heavy question, what shall we do?

17. Tarihinda | Cecile Kayirebwa (Rwanda)

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

16. Zamina mina | Zangalewa (Cameroon)

The longest song you will never want to hear ends. Yous could listen to it from 1986 when information technology was released to the fourth dimension of reading this and nonetheless have no qualms at all. Zangalewa ring members were in the Cameroon army and this song, in pidgin, French, Douala and 'broken' English, was done for comic relief by the military recruits detailing the state of affairs in the camp.

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

15. Sinzia | Nameless (Republic of kenya)

Nasinzia is to fall comatose. Nameless goes bonkers in this 2005 hit with praises that borders on insanity. He reels off phrases to emphasise her beauty, saying he wished he was her trunk lotion to enjoy her skin, or her shoes to see the view upward, or saliva to taste her lips...

14. Wombo Lombo | Angelique Kidjo (Benin)

This 1996 vocal wouldn't be on this list if only for its lyrics just information technology is here because information technology must be. The song is for the spirit of a dance, one so enchanting no human being should just be standing notwithstanding there is one such. Practice you call back anyone else can do it?

thirteen. Mamou | Franco & TPOK (Autonomous Republic of Congo)

A adult female laments about her friend (Mamou) for whom she covers only Mamou goes around blaming this woman for her woes. Mamou is a cheat but tells her married man that every other man she is establish with is her friend'due south boyfriend. Yet Mamou goes effectually blaming the same friend for her marital woes.

12. Mama | Khadja Nin (Burundi)

Khadja pays tribute to mothers for all they have to put up with for their family, twenty-four hour period and nighttime. That fifty-fifty when they raise their vox or hand at their children, they do so to protect them.

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

From 1989 to all the men who sire children, leave them with their mother and move '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.

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

Muzina. In the name. Probably Ley's last existent installment and it was similar he had saved the all-time for last. A gospel melody with a sebene that is terrific for the dance flooring. Ley exhorts everyone to pray to God, praise God and give thanks God for his blessings.

9. Mama | Brenda Fassie (S. Africa)

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

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

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

seven. seven Seconds | Youssou Northward'Dour ft Neneh Ruby-red (Senegal)

Cherry suggested co-writing an anti-racism song. 7 Seconds' title refers to the first moments of a child's life, as Cerise put information technology, "not knowing about the problems and violence in our earth."

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

'In that location Is An Answer' urges S Africans to accept that at that place is still a chance to share their motherland'due south love with all. The vocal solemnly asks the invisible easily to assist S Africans to put the past behind them.

5. Pata Pata | Miriam Makeba (South Africa)

First recorded in 1959 equally Phata Phata, Mama Africa redid the song in 1969, added a few English words like "Every Fri and Saturday dark, it's Pata Pata fourth dimension." Information technology became an instant striking globally. This is a vocal about a flirtatious dance move. 'Pata' translates every bit 'calorie-free touch.'

4. Think Virtually the Children | Lucky Dube (Southward. Africa)

Lucky Dube's passion almost 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 endure because they have no i to show them right and wrong.

3. Mario | Franco (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Mario was inspired by a Portuguese gigolo associate of Franco. Information technology is about a boyfriend who, despite his education, prefers to live off the earnings of sugar mummies. Franco urges Mario to look for one woman to marry instead of attention to older women.

2. Alone | Philly Bongoley Lutaaya (Republic of uganda)

Lutaaya's greatest song nearly HIV/Aids. Alone, from his terminal anthology in 1989 titled Alone and Frightened, preaches near the affliction and calls on the people not to shun the afflicted who only need honey and hope.

1. God Bless the Woman | Lucky Dube (South Africa)

Nosotros praise heroes everyday, but nosotros forget to praise, the women of this world... The mournful voice with which Dube executes this 1995 vocal would exit any woman weeping. At present imagine the children yearning to meet their father...

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