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PREMIERE: A*M*E – “Heartless” (Fear Of Tigers Remix)
Last month, A*M*E gave the world the first play of her forthcoming single, “Heartless,” along with MNEK’s bumpy-bumpy remix. Today, though, the young starlet from Sierra...
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UK/Sierra Leone MC Adian Coker Revives The Old School Vibe
Name: Adian Coker
Where he’s From: London, via Sierra Leone
Genre: Hip-hop
Most Similar: Nas, Public Enemy
Sounds Like: The Bronx in the 80s with a British...
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A Lesson from Lamin Fofana: Africans Are Real
Name: Lamin Fofana
Where He’s From: New York, via Sierra Leone and Guinea
When He Started: 2010
Genre: Futurist Afro-Techno
Most Similar: Spoek Mathambo, Chief...
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Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang — “Eh Mane Ah”
Sierra Leone’s Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang have some fun in the sun with “Eh Mane Ah.” Their lavish, bright disposition along with scrambled beats and organic flute...
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Janka Nabay Parties With The Bubu Gang
In the past decade Ahmed Janka Nabay has gone from being a star in Sierra Leone to struggling to make ends meet as an émigré in Philadelphia, to nurturing a second act...
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Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang — “Somebody”
Sierra Leone’s Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang don’t have time to waste. In “Somebody” from En Yay Sah, the drum pattern echoes a consistent tick tock as if they’re just...
review
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars ― Radio Salone
It’s kind of tough to have to pan an album by a critically lauded band that formed in a refugee camp during Sierra Leone’s war and has spent most of its career...
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Bajah & Dry Eye Crew Throw Down on Sierra Leone Benefit Album
Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war fractured the small West African country, displacing millions of natives and raising the death toll into the tens of thousands. From...
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Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang — An Letah EP
When Sierra Leone’s “King Of Bubu” Janka Nabay first emerged from exile and obscurity circa 2010, he never expected to become an accidental hipster icon. It was a...