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  Artistes Chiwoniso
  Album Ancient Voices
  Year 1999
  Writer Chiwoniso Maraire
  Language Shona, English
  Runtime 5:02

Nameless' Sinzia single was probably the biggest African song in 2006. After Sinzia, African music fans wanted more. We waited for the CD and other singles. Months later, we were rewarded with Karibia, another hot track that featured Kidumu. Who was Kidumu? Who is Kidumu? Why didn't Nameless release another video so we could see who Kidumu was? Now we know, Kidumu is a famous Burundian singer who apparently lives in Kenya. Nameless and Kidumu combined on Karibia and that song is hot. That's not all, Kidumu has some really great music of his own.

Here are a few videos using some of his songs and the video uploader also adds the lyrics to some of the songs.

Recently, Museke.com interviewed Youssoupha Sidibie, a Senegalese musician who plays West African kora/harp music. Check out his CD Sacred Sound at CDBaby.

Museke: How is everything?
Youssoupha: Very Good, Thank you.

Museke: Can you tell us about your background and family?
Youssoupha: My grand-father was from the Wassulu tribe of Mali, he immigrated to Senegal, and started a family. I was born in Dakar the capital of Senegal, in a Family of 8 children.

What is called the music business today is not the business of producing music. At some point it became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. But that's not bad news for music, and it's certainly not bad news for musicians. Indeed, with all the ways to reach an audience, there have never been more opportunities for artists.

What is music?
First, a definition of terms. What is it we're talking about here? What exactly is being bought and sold? In the past, music was something you heard and experienced, Nana Kwame Ampadu, Teacher and his band etc it was as much a social event as a purely musical one. Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context because what ever these legends talk about in their music those days reflects the realities of the society then. Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, do we still do that? Or we listen for free.

• View all from Okyeame Kwame
  Artistes Okyeame Kwame, Morris Babyface
  Album M'awensem
  Year 2008
  Writer Quame Nsiah Appau
  Language Twi
  Track # 1
  Runtime 5:33

• View all from Eric Wainaina
  Artistes Eric Wainaina, Christian Kaufmann, Oliver Mtukudzi
  Album Twende Twende
  Year 2007
  Writer Eric Wainaina
  Language Swahili, English, Zulu
  Track # 1
  Runtime 4:48

There have been many instances where African musicians have sampled popular American songs. The sampling gets done so blatantly that you could call some songs 'Thriller in Swahili', 'Amazing Grace in Zulu' and 'Unleash the dragon in Twi'. One popular remix or sampling is that of Banky W's Ebute metta which was also first known as the Nigerian remix of Rihanna's Umbrella. People may complain about the lack of originality of these African musicians but maybe they will care to know that Manu Dibango's Soul Makossa is part of the backbone for Rihanna's worldwide hit - Please don't stop the music. "Mama-se, mama-sa, mama-ma-ko-ssa" is that line that has kept dance floors going since 1972.

Mafikizolo and African music fans have to be wondering - has Nhlanhla Sibongile Mafu Nciza of Mafikizolo fame gone solo? She launched her first solo album last year and is now the face of Sunsilk as she seeks to shed her Mafikizolo image and push her name more into the limelight.

She has even launched a fashion line called NN Vibes or NN Vintage (NN are her initials). She owns it with her husband, music mogul and co-owner of TS Records, Thembinkosi “TK” Nciza. Thembinkosi owns TS Records with popular radio and TV personality, DJ Sbu Leope.

Nhlanhla released her debut solo album titled Inguquko (Change) through TS Records. This was after Mafikizolo abandoned plans for a new album and Nhlanhla quit Kalawa Jazmee to join TS Records. Kalawa believes we'll see more Mafikizolo music in the future as she still remains a member of the Mafikizolo duo but for now Nhlanhla is enjoying a successful solo career.