tokensurfboards:

Enjoy some Nigerian Blues, Highlife, and slow jams from West Africa…

Full Tracklist:

1. Intro - Fela Kuti

2. Iye Iye Oh - Victor Uwaifo

3. Okwukwe Na Nchekwube -  Celestine Ukwu & His Philosophers National

4. Camayenne Sofa - Wayalangai

5. Dododo (Ekassa No. 1) - Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestroes

6. Torri Wow - Godwin Ezike & The Ambassadors

7. Porry - Sorry Bamba

8. Ou C’est Lui Ou C’est Moi - Vincent Ahehehinnou

9. Yellow Sisi - Cardinal Rex Lawson & His River Men

10. Eddie Quansa - Peacocks Guitar Band

11. Wasenigbo Tua - Cardinal Rex Lawson

12. George Kazoka - Ulayinda Kubota

13. F. Kenya - Ewule Adoma Kuma

14. Happy Survival - Eddie Okwedy

*cover artwork by Leonore Mau

*listen above

(via thatnigeriankid)

thatnigeriankid:

Tha Suspect - Subsidy (Freestyle)

Nigerian Music

The context of this song, for those who don’t know, is the recent Nigerian feul subsidy removal that the government enforced, causing the price of feul there to skyrocket. Please google about it for more info.

chocolatcream:

Ayo

randomselective:

Shakara - Fela Kuti

My dad told me Fela was a boil on the Nigerian government’s flesh. Because he hated the corruption inside it, whenever the Nigerian president bought a limousine to ride in he would buy the same one and transport garbage in it.

If you call a woman

African woman, no go ‘gree

She go say

She go say “I be lady o”

If you call a woman

African woman, no go ‘gree

She go say

She go say “I be lady o”