Last month, Gabonese emcees Wendy, Lestat, Maat, Keza, and Lord Ekomy Ndong joined on a single track under the name of Zorbam All Stars. The track was dedicated to the ‘Pantheres‘ of Gabon, the national soccer team who were about to play the CAN (Coup d’Afrique des Nations) in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The video was launched this week, and while CAN is now over (salute to Zambia), the panthers should be back on the prowl in the next pan African soccer event.
In the past few years, many African music gems from the 1970′s have been dug up and reissued on the international (often: western) market. Even the most obscure recordings and unreleased tapes have…
This interview was originally published in 2002 at Africanhiphop.com The current overflow of Tanzanian hiphop releases doesn’t exactly remind of the situation in the early nineties. At the time there was hardly any…
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