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Hip Hop in Benin Sakpata Boys Members: Ludovic, Olivier, Urbano, Fantome Albums: Africa Party (1999), Voodooland (2000) In Hollywood-movies, voodoo practice has always been made to look scary. This has much to do with stereotypes of Africa and Africans that have a long history in western writing. Voodoo is usually associated with Haiti, few people know that in today's West Africa it is still part of religion, usually called Vodoun. Benin's most popular rap group Sakpata Boys have incorporated voodoo traditions into their performance. Their latest album Voodooland was co-produced by Senegalese top musician Youssou N'Dour and features Senegalese emcees Bideew Bou Bess. They also were part of the 1999 Pan African hiphop festival in Cotonou (see our report). Recently the Boys were very succesful throughout West Africa with their clip 'Vodounvi' in which they display vodoun-rituals. The beat to the song incorporates traditional music. See what it's all about as we have a realvideo stream of the entire clip - courtesy LC2 (Benin). Click to view 'Vodounvi' in streaming Realvideo H2O Members: Dadjo, Al, Bignon, Fadji Albums: Assouka (2000) H2O is a crew affiliated with Sakpata. Their music also incorporates local traditions in a creative way.

Sakpata's second album 'Africa Party'.