Born Yallah Gudencia Mbidde in Kenya and raised in Uganda, MC Yallah has been involved in East Africa's rap scene since 1999. Alternating rhymes in Luganda, Luo, Kiswahili and English, her conscious, poetic and experimental style was slow to creep into Uganda's mainstream. Following a brief but necessary hiatus, she returned to...
@MHowell asɛnka nni ho! Great read and good points, especially this one:
If you’re a writer or an activist or anyone else engaged in critical synthesis, then the news-stories, ideas, sights and sounds you encounter are liable to tug at your attention: this is a piece of something bigger, and maybe something important.
That tug is the old call of the storyteller - that there is something vital in your words, needed by someone, somewhere, and that alone makes the tale worthwhile to tell.
Thank you very much Kalawa for jazzing me up. This ladies and gentlemen is Mr Bouga Two Shoes, in the place to be, and it go a little something like this:...
Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro [ɔɾˈfew ˈneɣɾu]) is a 1959 romantic tragedy film directed by French filmmaker Marcel Camus, and starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which set the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in a contemporary favela in...
The Songhai Empire (also transliterated as Songhay) was a state located in the western part of the Sahel during the 15th and 16th centuries. At its peak, it was one of the largest African empires in history. The state is known by its historiographical name, derived from its largest ethnic group and ruling elite, the Songhai...
This song is for Fire. I was good friends with Fire. So I'd come over and see Fire and we'd have dinner. I'd bring the meat and Fire would cook. But it was a long ways to Fire's house, so I invited Fire to come to my house for a barbecue....
This is the song for my next tale. Once there were no stories in the world. So I decided to go to Nyan-Kopon the sky god in order to buy the sky god’s stories. The sky god said, “What makes you think you can buy them?”...
Jericho - Iniko - 2023 (www.youtube.com)
I'm high, I'm from outer space. I got Milky Way for blood, evolution in my veins...
Sikwebela - Yallah Beibe - MC Yallah & DebMaster - 2023 (www.youtube.com)
Born Yallah Gudencia Mbidde in Kenya and raised in Uganda, MC Yallah has been involved in East Africa's rap scene since 1999. Alternating rhymes in Luganda, Luo, Kiswahili and English, her conscious, poetic and experimental style was slow to creep into Uganda's mainstream. Following a brief but necessary hiatus, she returned to...
dJarabi - Sona Jobarteh and Band (www.youtube.com)
Beloved, forgive me, mothers, but money cannot buy love...
Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing (www.themarginalian.org)
No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do....
It's My House - Kabelo - 2002 (South Africa Kwaito) (www.youtube.com)
Thank you very much Kalawa for jazzing me up. This ladies and gentlemen is Mr Bouga Two Shoes, in the place to be, and it go a little something like this:...
Sphiwe (Given) - The Return - Mshoza - 2005 (www.youtube.com)
Mshoza, you dance with the ghosts now, but your request has been heard by Papa Legba, and with his blessing, you've been given your return....
Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) - 1959 - starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello, directed by Marcel Camus (movie-web.app)
Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro [ɔɾˈfew ˈneɣɾu]) is a 1959 romantic tragedy film directed by French filmmaker Marcel Camus, and starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which set the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in a contemporary favela in...
Wasted Eyes - Fountain Baby - Amaarae - 2023 (www.youtube.com)
Racks on racks, money ginja me...
The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold (www.youtube.com)
The Songhai Empire (also transliterated as Songhay) was a state located in the western part of the Sahel during the 15th and 16th centuries. At its peak, it was one of the largest African empires in history. The state is known by its historiographical name, derived from its largest ethnic group and ruling elite, the Songhai...
What the Fuck? Omar Sterling - 2022 (www.youtube.com)
This song is for Fire. I was good friends with Fire. So I'd come over and see Fire and we'd have dinner. I'd bring the meat and Fire would cook. But it was a long ways to Fire's house, so I invited Fire to come to my house for a barbecue....
▸ Spider Dance ▸ Holder Remix ▸ Undertale Remixed (www.youtube.com)
This is the song for my next tale. Once there were no stories in the world. So I decided to go to Nyan-Kopon the sky god in order to buy the sky god’s stories. The sky god said, “What makes you think you can buy them?”...
Akwaaba - GuiltyBeatz, Mr Eazi, Patapaa & Pappy Kojo - 2018 (www.youtube.com)
Akwaaba, this is the music I choose for my first tale, the real story about how I became spider......