URBAN AFRICA CLUB

+++ Listen to what Africa sounds like today +++ The time has come: Outhere Records is proud to announce our new blog Urban Africa Club www.urbanafricaclub.com What’s hot in Africa? Who is rocking the clubs?  A new generation is coming up with new styles and moves. Be it Kinshasa, Cape Town or Swaziland: We bring to you hidden gems and the continents biggest hits. Musical anthems foreseeing the revolt in Burkina Faso and spreading the message against ivory trade and Ebola.  HIV/AIDS awareness is just becoming the largest pop success in Congo. We had the chance to catch up with Steven Sogo who composed a cry for Democracy after the failed coup in Burundi. Who is who in Africa today? Welcome to the Urban Africa Club.

 Nneka’s Top Tunes from Lagos: This month we have Nigerian singer Nneka presenting her favorite songs from Nigeria. She takes us right into the urban jungle of Ajegunle, Lagos biggest Ghetto, where upcoming dancehall star Oritshe Femi is from. She tells us about the lyrically skilled singer Wande Coal. We get to know more about her passion for political messages from her friend and Afrobeat-inheritor Seun Kuti, as well as the masked and humbled Lagbaja. And last but not least she introduces us to Seyi Shay, an english female singer with roots in Nigeria, now found home in Lagos today.