Janka Nabay is the king of Bubu music. That style has old roots in Muslim Sierra Leone, but it's come to life recently in the clubs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, as well as on a new album called En Yay ...
Sierra Leone has only two athletes at the Olympic Games in London this summer, and one of them, Ola Sesay, will be participating in the qualifying rounds of the long jump Tuesday. Although Sesay, who ...
It was 2007 and I was co-producing my first public radio show for the series Afropop Worldwide, focused on the music of Sierra Leone. A BBC reporter had loaned us a plastic bag full of tapes and CDs ...
The Bubu King EP -- a four-song collection that marries hyper ramshackle beats with addictive West African chants and singing -- breezes past in 20 minutes. On certain days I listen to it half a dozen ...
Forced into exile from Sierra Leone, Nabay now makes his mysterious, mesmerizing music in Brooklyn. Janka Nabay: The King Of Bubu Music Janka Nabay is the king of Bubu music. That style has old roots ...
It was 2007 and I was co-producing my first public radio show for the series Afropop Worldwide, focused on the music of Sierra Leone. A BBC reporter had loaned us a plastic bag full of tapes and CDs ...
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