Matata - Mpishi Feat. Bien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCTzC3y4kbU
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R.I.P Ayub Ogada
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rip-ayub-ogada/
Job Seda (1956 – 1 February 2019), better known as Ayub Ogada, was a Kenyan singer, favoring the nyatiti (an eight-stringed lyre with its origins credited to the Luo, a tribe in Western Kenya) as his characteristic instrument. […]
Edited 252d ago
Sauti Sol – Melanin feat. Patoranking
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sauti-sol-melanin-patoranking/
“Melanin” is from “Afrikan Sauce“, the fourth studio album by Kenyan band Sauti Sol, and features Patoranking.
🚨 The single's cover, visible inside the post, could be eventually considered #NSFW
Edited 247d ago
Eric Wainaina – Twende Twende!
https://amf.didiermary.fr/eric-wainaina-oliver-mtukudzi-twende-twende/
Twende Twende is the second album by Eric Wainaina, released in 2006. The eponymous song features Oliver Mtukudzi.
OONI data is being used as evidence in support of a landmark public interest case in #Kenya! ✊
Our report on the blocking of Telegram during the 2023 & 2024 #KCSE exams supported a petition filed at the High Court of Kenya.
https://ooni.org/post/2025-kenya-blocked-telegram-kcse-exams/
#Fotovorschlag ,Gegenlicht‘
(backlight)
#kenya #MaasaiMara
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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede.
Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-malawi-state-department-crime-sexual-violence-trafficking?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Moreno Batamba & Orchestra First Moja-One – Adidja
https://amf.didiermary.fr/moreno-batamba-orchestra-first-moja-one-adidja/
Orchestra (First) Moja-One was a group formed in 1980 in Nairobi, Kenya, by Moreno Batamba, himself born in Congo. The band only lasted until the mid 1980s. They appear on the original “Sister Pili” album and the extended release “+2” from 2012.
Still fondly remembered in Kenya, […]
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Welcome To The Disco – Muthoni Drummer Queen
https://amf.didiermary.fr/welcome-disco-muthoni-drummer-queen/
The main track off the eponym EP in 2011, by Muthoni Drummer Queen (aka MDQ).
Edited 355d ago
'Dinge die mit "G" beginnen ...'
(Things that begin with the letter G)
#FotoVorschlag #kenya #Tsavo
Elsy Wameyo - Conquer Feat. Ywaya Tajiri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GbxFCREyvg
"The Kenyan-born artist often produces, writes, and performs her songs, demonstrating a committed artistry that has garnered attention for her projects since 2018.
She released her debut album, Saint Sinner, late last year."
What's hot in #Kenya in 2025... (or not)
Is Gengetone sound dead or not? Rap blended with reggaeton and dancehall, usually resulting in a high-energy and dance-ready sound, tries to come back...
"Gengetone is a Kenyan genre that evolved during Covid times from Genge, the HipHop sub-genre born out of California-based Calif Records, which had acts such as Nonini and Jua Cali."
GengeTone Sessions by Alternate Sound (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVRrXi-EJzw
Emmanuel Jal, Vanessa Mdee, Juliani & Syssi Mananga – Tusimame
https://amf.didiermary.fr/emmanuel-jal-vanessa-mdee-juliani-syssi-mananga-tusimame/
South Sudan’s Emmanuel Jal, the internationally acclaimed recording artist and inspiring humanitarian has joined forces with some of music’s biggest stars, including Tanzania’s Vanessa Mdee, Congo’s Syssi Mananga and Kenya’s Juliani in the making of Tusimame, a pan-African musical stand against the destruction of Africa’s elephants [...]
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M.anifest – Blue (Chale Wat Dey Happen)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manifest-blue-chale-wat-dey-happen/
Kwame Ametepee Tsikata (born November 1982), aka M.anifest, is a Ghanaian musician, rapper and record producer.
M.anifest is an award-winning Ghanaian rapper and musician known for musical boundary crossing, multilingual wordplay, and a refreshing approach that acknowledges both his Ghanaian upbringing and his sojourns in the West. [...]
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Nairobi Matata Jazz
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nairobi-matata-jazz/
The Kenyan genre known as benga (“beautiful thing” in the Luo language) developed in East Africa in the early 1970s as a rhythmic, incisive style, with roots in Cuban music and Congolese rumba. Unifying various characteristics of Kenya’s musical past, it quickly crystallized poetic traditions of the country’s disparate communities, with lyrics conveying powerful [...]
Edited 190d ago
70s & 80s Kenyan Benga & Afro-Cuban Rumba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kenyan-benga-afro-cuban-rumba-70s-80s/
Kenyan Benga & Afro-Cuban Rumba playlist from the 3-LP set from Soundway Records’ release “Kenya Special – Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s and ’80s”.
Kenya Special is a collection of 32 recordings (most of which were only ever released on small-run 45rpm 7″ singles) that stand out [...]
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroCuban #Benga #Compilation #Kenya #Rumba
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Mbaraka Mwinshehe & Orchestra Super Volcano – Masika Mtindo Mpya
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mwinshehe-super-volcano-masika-mtindo-mpya/
Orchestra Super Volcano is the band formed in Kenya by Mbaraka Mwinshehe when he relocated there from Tanzania.
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Intro for Jinja by the Nile Project
https://amf.didiermary.fr/intro-video-jinja-nile-project/
In January 2013, the Nile Project brought together 18 musicians from Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt to experiment with a collaborative creative process that would last 10 days. Each musician brought 2 songs. In the mornings, they taught one another their respective musical languages. in the afternoons, [...]
#Burundi #Egypt #EPK #Ethiopia #Kenya #Rwanda #Sudan #Tanzania
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Sauti Sol – Nishike, censored & banned…
The video for “Nishike” (Touch me) by Sauti Sol was censored & banned from TV airing in Kenya due to “pornographic content”…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sauti-sol-nishike-censored-banned/
Could be considered NSFW – What do you think?
It’s from album “Live and Die in Afrika”, the third studio album by Kenyan afro-pop band, released in 2015.
Edited 282d ago
#AfricanNews accounts to follow:
➡️ @thecontinent - Pan-African online newspaper run by non-profit based in South Africa
➡️ @TUKOcoke - Kenyan online news site
➡️ @ZekuZelalem - Award-winning investigative reporter covering Ethiopia and Horn of Africa
➡️ @beverly_ochieng - Security & media analyst focused on Africa
➡️ @teachersupdates - Education news in Kenya
➡️ @index - Business news in Mozambique
Okello Max – Taya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtAdqyRQJ7M
East African rhythms meet Haitian Kompa.
Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USAID #Hunger #USPolitics #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #Kenya
Is Metal / (Hard) Rock music un-African?
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rock-music-un-african/
An unfortunately popular myth is that Rock music, such as Metal or HardRock, is un-African, a genre for white people in which Africans are under represented. This myth needs to be debunked. The African continent has birthed several diverse and thriving rock scenes throughout the years, from Zamrock to Nigerian psychedelic [...]
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Mombasa – Kenia (remixed)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mombasa-kenia-remixed/
Essential and hard to find album with tons of true killer Afro Funk breaks.
Classic and sought after Afro Jazz Reissue of original debut LP by African jazz band “Mombasa” led by Lou Blackburn and recorded in 1975 at Cornet studio […]
Edited 119d ago