repatriation

Smallest time

  • Smallest time View all from Wanlov
    Wanlov the Kuborlor, Anjolee
    Green card
    2007
    Emmanuel Owusu Bonsu
    English
    14
    3:37
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq_wgmyZBZo

Seems like just yesterday, left home so far away
Memories remind us that destiny would find us
Sooner or later, north south pole to the equator
Anywhere on this planet, even if we don't plan it

Hook
My people I dey greet you (2x)
Africa I miss you (2x)
I dey come o (2x)

Chorus
Smallest time o, find my wife one o
She then me born o, we dey come o
Smallest time o (3x)
Smallest time o (3x)
Smallest time o (3x)
Smallest time o (3x)

Verse - Wanlov
US border, visa required
College degree, unexpired
No school fees, visa expire

Have you gotten your Green Card? If you have, then Wanlov!

Green Card by WanlovNo, not that one. I am taking about Wanlov's long-awaited debut CD called Green Card. I bought it a couple of weeks ago and I have really enjoyed the experience. The album is a masterpiece that has a focus on Ghana, Diasporean issues, Ghanaians abroad, etc. I remember hearing his first single 'Kokonsa' and I immediately realised a fresh new sound then. It has taken Wanlov the Kuborlor about 5 years to work on his LP and it was well worth it. It is a great album for Africans abroad to have.

Green Card

  • Green Card View all from Wanlov
    Wanlov da Kubolor
    Green card
    2007
    Emmanuel Owusu Bonsu
    English
    1
    5:09

Hook 2x
We fought to get off the slave yard
Now we fight to get us a green card
Why do we work for this stuff so hard?
How you living and you working grave yard?

Verse 1
Stand for days
At the American consulate
They're running late
Push back yout interview date
So you won't stay
They ask for a bank state
Meant to bring one
Forgot
Now they close gates
Bills ain't paid
Money spent on visa fees
You crying
Landlady standing vis a vis
C'est la vie mon amis
Ask Uncle Kofi
Maybe he's got connections at the embassy
Used to be with this lady fro

Repatriation

  • Repatriation View all from Batman Samini
    Samini, Gogome
    Samini (rain god)
    2006
    Emmanuel Andrews Samini
    Twi, English, Dagaare, Ewe
    3
    6:19

Intro
Sakatumbele

Intro
Sakatumbele

Chorus 2x
Sakatumbele
Ansoma
Tumbele
Yeminaa
Zimanee
Ziemanyen
Dewbison
Ka abiihi
Ka atima
Ka ajamaa

Ogabi verse
Efie ne fie (3x)
Momma yɛnkɔ fie
Efie ne fie, yɛnkɔ fie
Ma wo mu so (3x)
Na ɛmmere no aso

Samini verse
Ye wa ka ti kuli Dagao (sakatumbele)
Ye wa ka ti kuli Dagaati (sakatumbele)
Mu du ka daya
Shie saa koowa ezoo muyi rawa
Wala, Dagaaba, nin Lobi ye wa ka ti sew baawa
Something lege
Rise up and move your lege
Something leg
Paake wo nnoɔma ma y

Ndawo yami (my place)

  • Ndawo yami (my place) View all from Zamajobe
    Zamajobe
    Ndawo yami
    2004
    Zamajobe Sithole
    English, Zulu
    2
    4:48
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOKe-e5RKE

Verse
Take me to the place
Where the river, river runs wild
To the place
A place with fruit or lie?
This place in my dreams
This place is in my head all day
River, river runs wild

Take me to the place
Where the grass is green all year
To the place
Where the bees never sting

This place in my dreams
This place is in my head all day
Where the grass is green all year

Chorus
Ndawo yami (4x)
Ndawo yami (3x), hey hey

Verse

Once a slave

  • Once a slave View all from Project Monkz
    Project Monkz
    Once a slave
    2006
    Ramses, Sun Rays, Issa da Habinjah, Alpha (Saint Quran)
    English
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j737oYS9xys

Listen up brothers and sisters
The black man has not always been a slave
First, great God created the black man and the black woman
As the first on this planet Earth
God created the black man and the black woman
The Black Race defined the laws of this universe
They still govern man's behaviour
Even until this very day
But what happened
Out of the mountain
Came a very destructive race
That ended up destroying our Black civilisation
In the garden of Eden, in ancient Egypt
In ancient Israel, Hindu, Kush, India

Jacket (what you come back for)

  • Jacket (what you come back for) View all from Praye
    Praye
    Bomb
    2006
    Eugene Baah, Steven Fiawoo, Nana Kwame
    Twi, Ga
    2
    5:54
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTw6cIbchnU

Prayɛ, it's like that
What you come back for
The name, the money, the fame
The things, the labels
What you come back for
My labels, my flex, the things
Oh, Praye

Chorus
Wɔama yɛaworɔ me jacket (3x)
Wɔama yɛayi me singlet (3x)
Wɔama yɛaworɔ me boxers (3x)
Wɔama yɛatu me duku (3x)

Ɔdɔ, ama yɛaworɔ me jacket wɔ abɔnten
Ɛfiri sɛ, ɔmpɛ m'asɛm dadaada
Wobɛgye adi paa sɛ
Ɔhyɛɛ da sɔɔ me nsa sɛ apolisifoɔ nkye me
Ɔmpɛ m'asɛm dadaada

Boi! Batman Samini wins best African artiste at MOBO's

Batman Samini

...the sounds of our time

MOBO's 2006 winners


I was very excited to hear about Batman aka Emmanuel Samini's nomination for best African artiste at the Music of Black Origin (MOBO) awards. I was skeptical about his ability to win the award since he was competing against seasoned African musicians like Lebo Mathosa and Jose Chameleon, as well as the hottest group in Nigeria, P-Square. Batman emerged the winner and this just shows how far he is moving into the international limelight. He got one of the loudest cheers of the night after he said he was from the 'Continent of Black Origin' (COBO).

Ka w'ano to mu

  • Ka w'ano to mu View all from Soulatidoe
    Soulatidoe
    Ka w'ano to mu
    Emmanuel Obeng, Frederick Obeng
    Twi, English
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVrkdBGxUv8

Chorus
Sɛ yɛde nneɛma firi aburokyire ba a, na moosrɛsrɛ
Na sɛ yɛkɔba na sɛ anyɛ yie a, na moosresre
Akwantuo a, yɛtu yi, yɛkano nea ɔnim nti baafoɔ
Ka w'ano to mu, ka w'ano to mu

1st Verse: Latidoe
Ɛmerɛ a, mewɔ, mekɔ afuo mu ɛkɔtu mmire ɛte nkontommire
Sɛ nea ɛbɛyɛ a, me nsa bɛkɔ m'ano anwummire
Metuu kwan kɔɔ aburokyire sɛ meekɔpɛ biribi aba fie
Nanso amanfoɔ monite, akwantuo yi meti anyɛ yie
Mese yɛɛyɛ aka akwantuomu, lumba bɛseɛ
Akwantuo a, yɛɛtu yi baafoɔ wonnim sɛ nea ɛteɛ

Efie ne fie - Home Sweet Home

Originally written on November 7, 2005

...Sounds on da ground and seens on the see-ins I was 'shiing imprÉ›' (dozing off) in my international development class as a result of inadequate sleep. When my lecturer mentioned, "now, we shall see a movie about manufacturing in Ghana", I became wide awake. The movie was rolled with highlife playing in the background, and my mind tuned to the memories of riding around Kumasi and hearing Paapa Yankson's music blare through music shops' speakers. Home is where the heart is - Efie ne fie aka Home sweet home.

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