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Manu Dibango, Wakafrika
Audio CD
Disk ID: 22088
Disk length: 1h 7m 14s (13 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1994
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Soul Makossa - featuring Youssou N'Dour | 5:40 |
| 2. Biko - featuring A.Brown, P.Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, G.Oryema | 5:13 |
| 3. Wakafrika | 4:48 |
| 4. Emma - featuring Salif Keita | 6:00 |
| 5. Homeless - featuring Rai Lema | 3:46 |
| 6. Lady - featuring Rai Phiri | 5:32 |
| 7. Hi-Life - featuring King Sunny Adé | 5:43 |
| 8. Wimoweh - featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo | 4:20 |
| 9. Ami Oh! - featuring Angélique Kidjo, Papa Wemba | 4:43 |
| 10. Jingo - featuring King Sunny Adé | 5:09 |
| 11. Pata Pata - featuring Kaïssa Doumbé | 4:04 |
| 12. Diarabi - featuring Bonga, Touré Kunda | 4:59 |
| 13. Ca Va Chouia | 7:08 |
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Review
Cameroon expatriate Manu Dibango's Wakafrika is arguably the most catholic African album ever recorded. Where else could you hear a Nigerian juju guitarist (King Sunny Ade) team up with a jazzy Cameroon saxophonist (Dibango) to perform a tune by a Benin composer (Wally Badarou)? The guest list goes on. And on. Peter Gabriel (remaking "Biko"), Youssou N'dour, Salif Keita, Sinead O'Connor, Angelique Kidjo, Ladysmith Black Mambazo (doing--what else?--"Wimboweh"), Ray Lema, Toure Kunda, Papa Wemba, and Geoffrey Oryema all pop up at various times. A buttery French production, Wakafrika isn't a bad album, necessarily; Dibango is a smooth, popular homogenizer of afrobeats galore. But it's so predictably diverse as to lack any identity other than its own heavily produced veneer. --Richard Gehr
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
Tracks: 13, Disk length: 1h 7m 14s
Tracks: 13, Disk length: 1h 7m 15s (+0m 1s)
Tracks: 13, Disk length: 1h 7m 16s (+0m 2s)
Tracks: 14 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 11m 4s (+3m 50s)
Tracks: 12 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 2m 25s (-5m 11s)
Tracks: 15 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 5s (+8m 51s)
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