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This is where you come every Saturday afternoon, for the best selection of music from all across Africa and the islands. Presenter Richard Nwamba's infectious personality will pull you in and leave you wanting more....

ALSO look out for Richard's compilation CD "The Best of The African Connection, with Richard Nwamba" Volume II. Richard says: "Volume II follows the same formula as the first edition - a mixture of the best dance and listening songs from across the African continent. It includes short notes on songs and artists to guide the uninitiated. The converted will appreciate that this compilation also sticks to the songs most requested by the listeners to "The African Connection". It's the people's choice!"

Broadcast: Saturdays 13:00 - 15:00



Presented by
Richard Nwamba

Broadcast
Saturday 13:00 - 15:00

Previous shows - African Connection - Playlist - 13 June 2009

 

The African Connection 13/06/09

  1. Samite “Agalilia” (Uganda)
  2. Concord“Vuka Uzenzele” (RSA)
  3. Miriam Makeba “Masakhane” (RSA)
  4. Bheki Mseleku “Nants’ Inkululeko” (RSA)
  5. Chiwoniso “Usa Cheme” (Zimbabwe)
  6. Patricia Ochurus “Afrika Tsela” (Namibia)
  7. Magic System “1e Gaou” (Ivory Coast)
  8. Boni Gnahore “Magnan” (Cote D’Voire)
  9. Asa “Jailer” (Nigeria)
  10. Atongo Zimba “Bedi Bedi” (Ghana)
  11. Sam Mangwana “Ya Mbemba” (DRC)
  12. Papa Wemba & Viva la Musica “Apres Tout” (DRC)
  13. Bonga “Samania” (Angola)
  14. Lura “Galanton” (Cape Verde)
  15. Seydu “The Well” (Sierra Leone)
  16. Leyanis Lopez “Violin Tambor “(Cuba)
  17. Ayb Ogada “Kothiro” (Kenya)
  18. Super mama Djombo “Bissau Quila Muda” (Guinea-Bissau)

 

The African Connection 06/06/2009

 

  1.  Ibrahim Ferrer & Omara Portuondo “Silencio” (Cuba)
  2. Valia “Hasta Siempre Comandante” (Cuba)
  3. Geraldo Azevedo “Quém é Muito Querido a Mim” (Brazil)
  4. Tony Allen “Secret Agent” (Nigeria)
  5. Manu Dibango “Wambele” (Cameroon)
  6. Aster Aweke “Kabu” (Ethiopia)
  7. Gigi “Guramayle” (Ethiopia)
  8. Aimable Twahirwa “Humura” (Rwanda)
  9. Mwaba “Kabafulunganya” (Zambia/RSA)
  10. Peter Nthwane “Ha Re Kgutleleng Setsong” (Lesotho/RSA)
  11. 3MA “Anfass” (Mali, Madagascar & Morocco)
  12. Fally Ipupa “Sopeka” (DRC)
  13. Cheikh Lo “Guiss Guiss” (Senegal)
  14. Thione Seck “Daaly” (Senegal)

 

The African Connection Playlist 30/05/2009

  1. Zaiko Langa Langa “Dede Sur Mesure” (DRC)
  2. Pepe Kalle “Gerant” (DRC)
  3. Mapumba “Wekapa” (DRC/RSA)
  4. Concord“Canciones de Amor” (RSA)
  5. Suthukazi Arosi “Gxum’ Ubhekele” (RSA)
  6. Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited “Buka Tiende” (Zimbabwe)
  7. Eric Wainaina & Oliver Mtukudzi “Twende Twende” (Kenya/Zimbabbwe)
  8. D.O. Misiani & Shirati Jazz “Piny Ose Mer” (Kenya)
  9. Ochestre Super Mazembe “Shauri Yako” (Kenya)
  10. Bana “Fitch Fatchi Na Tracolanca” (Cape Verde)
  11. Carlos Burity “Ojala Ye Ya” (Angola)
  12. Khaled “Aicha” (Algeria)
  13. Meiway “Miss Lolo” (Cote D’Ivoire)
  14. Amakye Dede “Menpena Yadee” (Ghana)
  15. Waldo Mendoza “Pasa Un Tiempo Viejo” (Cuba)
  16. Aster Aweke “Ebo” (Ethiopia)

 

The African Connection Playlist 23/05/2009

  1. Massamba “Ntukihebe” (Rwanda)
  2. Massamba “Amatage” (Rwanda)
  3. Aimable Twahirwa “Humura” (Rwanda)
  4. Aimable Twahirwa “Humura” (Rwanda)
  5. Aimable Twahirwa “Umuco” (Rwanda)
  6. Daddy Lumba “Tokrom” (Ghana)
  7. Phinda “Snyuka Nengalo” (RSA)
  8. Makhadzi “Khare Thohoni” (RSA)
  9. Seun Kuti “Mosquito Song” (Nigeria)
  10. Mama Diabate “Koffi Cola” (Guinea)
  11. Kekele “Tapale” (DRC)
  12. Ibrahim Ferrer & Omara Portuondo “Silencio” (Cuba)

 

 

 

THE AFRICAN CONNECTION PLAYLIS OF 16/05/2009

  1. Kampi Moto & George Phiri “Nashanga Sana” (RSA)
  2. Kampi Moto & George Phiri “Lulu Lumbwe” (RSA)
  3. Kampi Moto & George Phiri “Ho Wena Pesa” (RSA)
  4. Kampi Moto & George Phiri “Pamodzi’ (RSA)
  5. Kampi Moto & George Phiri “Dunia” (RSA)
  6. Kampi Moto & George Phiri “Acha Masimango” (RSA)
  7. Franco & le TP OK Jazz “Kinsiona” (DRC)
  8. Salala “Lanitra Manga Manga” (Madagascar)
  9. Salala “Lanitra Manga Manga” LIVE (Madagascar)
  10. Rossy “Midona” (Madagascar)
  11. Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila “Mrema” (Tanzania)
  12. Oliver Mtukudzi “Wasakara” (Zimbabwe)
  13. Geoffrey Oryema “Land of Anaka” (Uganda)
  14. Leyanis Lopez “Mi Guajira” (Cuba)
  15. Polo Montanez “Canten” (Cuba)

 

THE AFRICAN CONNECTION PLAYLIS OF 09/05/2009

  1. Logo Music
  2. Shaluza Max “Vinqo” (RSA)
  3. Letta Mbulu “Culani Nami” (RSA)
  4. Julius Nkuna “Xirilo” (RSA)
  5. Arthur Petersen “Gooi Mielies” (RSA)
  6. Malatji “Rato Laka” (RSA)
  7. Vusi Mahlasela “Basimanyana” (RSA)
  8. Jonas Gwangwa “Batsumi” (RSA)
  9. Dizu Plaatjies “State of Emergency – Ibuyambo” (RSA)
  10. Ladysmith Black Mambazo “Nomathemba” (RSA)
  11. Ray Lema “Kamulang” (DRC)
  12. Madilu System “Colonisation” (RSA)
  13. Lourdes van Dunen “ Imbua Kegie Ngana Ie” (Angola)
  14. Shanik “Song For U” (Swaziland)
  15. Victor Kunonga “Mayidarirei” (Zimbabwe)
  16. Cheikh Lo “Kelle Magni” (Senegal)
  17. Bom Bazz “The Dawn of Bojazz” (Botswana)

 

THE AFRICAN CONNECTION PLAYLIS OF 02/05/2009

 

1.Logo Music

2. Daddy Lumba "Tokrom" (Ghana)

3. Ernesto Djedje "Zouzoupale" (Ivory Coast)

4. Ernesto Djedje "Zibote" (Cote D'Ivoire)

5. Awa-Klash "Akoba" (Nigeria)

6. Jonas Gwangwa "Kgomo - Wedding Song" (RSA)

7. Shabalala Rhythm "Umaqondana" (RSA)

8. Orchestra Marrabenta Star de Mocambique "Sapateiro" (Mozambique)

9. Njava "Vetse" (Madagascar)

10. D.O. Misiani & Shirati Jazz "Piny Ose Mer" (Kenya)

11. Salif Keita "Africa" (Mali)

12. Bana "Fitchi Fatchi Na Tracolanca" (Cape Verde)

13. Fantcha "Nostalgia" (Cape Verde)

14. Bonga "Agua Rara" (Angola)

15. Filipe Mukenga "Kianda Ki Anda" (Angola)

16. Kekele "Tapale" (DRC)

17. Cheb Mami "Le Rai C'est Chic" (Algeria)

18. Krosfyah "Jamming Practice" (Barbados)

19. Tabou Combo "Baissez Bas" (Haiti)

20. Geoffrey Oryema "Mara" (Uganda)

 

 

The African Connection 25/04/2009

 

1. Logo Music

2. Jonas Gwangwa "Maseru" (RSA)

3. Jonas Gwangwa "Morwa"

4. Jonas Gwangwa "Mother is Love"

5. Jonas Gwangwa "Kgomo" (Wedding Song)

6. Jonas Gwangwa "Umyalo"

7. Babsy "Nobuhle" (RSA)

8. Victor Kunonga "Mayidarirei" (Zimbabwe)

9. Maryam Mursal "Sodewou" (Somalia)

10. Meiway "Miss Lolo" (Cote D’Ivoire)

11. Franco & le TP OK Jazz "Mujinga" (DRC)

12. Koffi Olomide "Cle Boa" (DRC)

 

 

The African Connection 18/04/2009

 

  1. Logo Music
  2. Madilu System “Colonisation” (DRC)
  3. Denis Tshibayi “Nge Na Munu” (DRC)
  4. Zao “L’aiguille” (Republic of Congo)
  5. Akendengue “Rragnambie” (Gabon)
  6. Akendengue “La Chanson de Goree” (Gabon)
  7. Oliver N’Goma “Bane” (Gabon)
  8. Eric Wainaina “Twende Twende” (Kenya)
  9. Boukan Ginen “Ede M Chante” (Haiti)
  10. Guajiro Mirabal “El Rincon Caliente” (Cuba)
  11. Lura “Orfelino” (Cape Verde)
  12. Geoffrey Oryema “Mara” (Uganda)
  13. Arthur Petersen “Gooi Mielies: (RSA)
  14. Peter Nthwane “Basadi Ba Batjha” (RSA)
  15. Aster Aweke “Kabu” (Ethiopia)
  16. Felix Owusu “Okwantu Nyi” (Ghana)

 

African Connection - Playlist - 2 August

 
  1. Logo Music
  2. Kassav “Jenerasion” (French Antilles)
  3. Ban’biyo “Agwadada” (French Antilles)
  4. Fela Anikulapo Kuti “Original Sufferhead” (Nigeria)
  5. Wendo Kolosy & Henri Bowane “Marie Louise” (DRC)
  6. Concord“Canciones de Amor” (RSA)
  7. Letta Mbulu “Akekho” (RSA)

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African Connection - 26 July

  • Logo Music
  • Orchestra Baobab “Sibam” (Senegal)
  • Diogal “Sore” (Senegal)
  • Ramata Diakite “Dibi” (Mali)
  • Ali Farka Toure “Howkouna” (Mali)
  • Mama Diakite “Koffi Cola” (Guinea)
  • Eneida Marta “Mindjer Doce Mel” (Guinea-Bissau)
  • Manecas Costa “Antonia” (Guinea-Bissau)
  • Ruy Mingas “Monangambe” (Angola)
  • Ras Sheehama “Shohela Oshaile Shaya” (Namibia)
  • Busi Mhlongo “Yehlisan’ Umoya Ma- Afrika” (South Africa)
  • Khaya Mahlangu “Nobelungu” (South Africa)
  • Mapumba “Mimi” (DRC)
  • Kampi Moto & George Phiri “Nashanga Sana” (DRC/Malawi)
  • Sam Mangwana “Galo Negro” (DRC)
  • Tete Alhinho “Sao Horas de Dormir” (Brazil)
  • D.O. Misiani & Shirati Jazz “Rose Okoth” (Kenya)
  • Sam Fan Thomas “Sabina” (Cameroon)

 

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Playlist - 19 July

  1. Logo Music

  2. Sello Galane “Matoditodi” (South Africa)
  3. Jeff Maluleke “Timanga” (South Africa)
  4. Shiyani Ngcobo “Wayi Thathaphi” (South Africa)
  5. Monique Seka “Missoumwa” (Ivory Coast)
  6. Dobet Gnahore “Palea” (Ivory Coast)
  7. Waldo Mendoza “Pasa Un Tiempo Viejo” (Cuba)
  8. Cesaria Evora “Jardim Prometido” (Cape Verde)
  9. Filipe Mukenga “Tchalumingo” (Angola)
  10. Kapa Dech “Kavata” (Mozambique)
  11. Tarika “Koba” (Madagascar)
  12. Saba “Jidka” (Somalia)
  13. Aster Aweke “Bale Garie” (Ethiopia)
  14. Gigi “Utopia” (Ethiopia)
  15. Valerie Kimani “Too Late Now” (Kenya)
  16. Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca “Sao Salvador” (DRC)
  17. Ray Lema “Kamulang” (DRC)
  18. Salif Keita “Folon” (Mali)
  19. Thione Seck “Madiguen” (Senegal)

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African Connection - Playlist - 12 July

 

Logo Music

  1. Bayete “Mbombela” (South Africa)
  2. Lira “Khet’ Omthandayo” (South Africa)
  3. Tshepo Tshola “Akubutle” (Lesotho)
  4. Patricia Ochurus “Afrika Tsela” (Namibia)
  5. Ibrahim Ferrer “Candela” (Cuba)
  6. Kassav “San Ayen “ (French Antilles)
  7. Duncan Senyatso “Maranyane” (Botswana)
  8. Simentera “Djuse di Piga” (Cape Verde)
  9. Ildo Lobo “Tema Cu Bo” (Cape Verde)
  10. Cheikh Lo “Guiss Guiss” (Senegal)
  11. Sekuoba Bambino “Kassouma Ma” (Guinea)
  12. Fela Anikulapo Kuti “He Miss Road)
  13. Akendengue “Ta’nzambe” (Gabon)
  14. Eric Wainaina “Fancy Car” (Kenya)
  15. Zao “L’Aiguille” (Republic of Congo)

 

 

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African Connection - Playlist - 5 July

    • Logo Music
  1. Vilon’Andoy “Tolombolagne” (Madagascar)
  2. Tarika “Aloka” (Madagascar)
  3. Monwabisi Sabani “Mnandisa” (South Africa)
  4. Miriam Makeba “Lindelani” (South Africa)
  5. Gito Baloi “Na Ku Randza” (South Africa/Mozambique)
  6. Wambali “Ulimbo Na Phula” (Malawi)
  7. Oliver Mtukudzi “Wasakara” (Zimbabwe)
  8. Shanik “A Song For U” (Swaziland)
  9. Banjo Mosele “Rre Batswana (Badisa)” (Botswana)
  10. P.K. Chishala “Icupo Ninsansa” (Zambia)
  11. Tabu Ley Rochereau “Nakwey Carreau” (DRC)
  12. Franco & le TPKO Jazz “Mujinga” (DRC)
  13. Kaoma “Lambada” (Brazil)
  14. Compay Segundo “Veinte Anos” (Cuba)
  15. Asa “Eye Adaba” (Nigeria)
  16. Amr Diab “Amarain” (Egypt)
  17. Akendengue “La Chanson de Goree” (Gabon)

 

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African Connection - Playlist 28 June

 

1. Logo Music

2. Meiway “Babayere” (Ivory Coast)

3. Amakye Dede “Menpena Yadee” (Ghana)

4. Oumou Sangare “Maladon” (Mali)

5. Ghorwane “U Yo Mussiya Kwini” (Mozambique)

6. Koffi Olomide “Ca et Ca” (DRC)

7. Fally Ipupa “Droit Chemin” (DRC)

8. Orchestra Super Mazembe “Shauri Yako” (Kenya)

9. Simba Wanyika “Maria” (Kenya)

10. Babsy “Nobuhle” (South Africa)

11. Concord “Ko Hae/Hayani” (South Africa)

12. Letta Mbulu “Akekho” (South Africa)

13. Eliades Ochoa/ Ibrahim Ferrer/Manuel Licea “El Cuarto de Tula” (Cuba)

14. Bana “Compadre Francisco” (Cape Verde)

15. Youssou N’Dour “Birima” (Senegal)

16. Wes “Alane” (Cameroon)

17. Sekouba Bambino “Acanadia” (Guinea)

18. Price Nico Mbarga “Onye Ori Obi” (Nigeria)

 

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African Connection - Playlist 21 June

 

    • Logo Music
  1. Aura Msimang “Kulala” (South Africa)
  2. “          “          “Itshe”       “
  3. “          “          “Rebana Ba Lesotho”
  4. “          “          “Ntjilo Ntjilo”
  5. “          “          “ Langa Mo
  6. Lizha James “Nita Mukuma Kwini” (Mozambique)
  7. Orchestra Marrabenta Star de Mocambique “A Vassati Va Lomu” (Mozambique)
  8. Reddy Amisi “Likombe Pasi” (DRC)
  9. Viva la Musica & Papa Wemba “Apres Tout” (DRC)
  10. Daddy Lumba “Tokrom” (Ghana)
  11. Meiway “Miss Lolo” (Ivory Coast)
  12. Seydu “The Well” (Sierra Leone)
  13. Habib Koite “Sinama Denw” (Mali)
African Connection - Playlist 7 June

 
  1. Logo Music (Richard Nwamba)
  2. Toure Kunda “Sidi Yella” (Senegal)
  3. Baaba Maal “Miyaabele” (Senegal)
  4. Toumani Diabate “Si Naani” (Mali)
  5. Fally Ipupa “Sopeka” (DRC)
  6. Ray Lema “Mathissou” (DRC)
  7. Franco et le TPOK Jazz “Princess Kikou” (DRC)
  8. The Moreira Project “Just a Thought” (RSA/Mozambique)
  9. Vusi Mahlasela “Basimanyana” (RSA)
  10. Tabou Combo “Baissez Bas” (Haiti)
  11. Ayub Ogada “Kothbiro” (Kenya)
  12. Samite “Wasuze Otya” (Uganda)
  13. Justin Vali “Larivo” (Madagascar)
  14. Dobet Gnahore “Palea” (Ivory Coast/Cote D’Ivoire)
  15. Prince Nico Mbarga “Sweet Mother” (Nigeria)
African Connection Playlist: 31 May

 
  1. Logo Music
  2. Netsayi “Kwazwai” (Zimbabwe)
  3. Netsayi “The Refugee Song” (Zimbabwe)
  4. Oliver Mtukudzi “Pindurai Mambo” (Zimbabwe)
  5. Letta Mbulu “Akekho” (South Africa)
  6. Nana Coyote “Ke Ho Nyetse Ke Ho Rata” (South Africa)
  7. Bonga “Olhos Molhados” (Angola)
  8. Carlos Lamartine “Vunda Ku Muceque” (Angola)
  9. Awilo Longomba “Coupe Bibamba” (DRC)
  10. Franco & le TPOK Jazz “Mbanda A Koti Kikumbi” (DRC)
  11. Prince Nico Mbarga “Oye Ori Obi” (Nigeria)
  12. Mwaba Phiri “Bushe Uwananyina Nabufwa” (Zambia)
  13. Choppa “Koma Xi Tia” (Mozambique)
  14. Maryam Mursal “Sodewou” (Somalia)
  15. Aster Aweke “Ebo” (Ethiopia)
African Connection Playlist: 24 May

 
  1. Logo Music – Richard Nwamba
  2. Eric Wainaina “Ritwa Riaku” (Kenya)
  3. Eric Wainaina “Nchi Yakitu Kidogo”
  4. Eric Wainaina “Twende Twende”
  5. Eric Wainaina “Dunia Ina Mambo”
  6. Eric Wainaina “Fancy Car”
  7. Babsy Mlangeni “Nobuhle” (South Africa)
  8. Amampondo “African Pride” (South Africa)
  9. Lizha James “Nita Mukuma Kwini” (Mozambique)
  10. Bhundu Boys “Pombi” (Zimbabwe)
  11. Wambali “Ulimbo Na Phula” (Malawi)
  12. Olufemi “Thando Lwami” (Nigeria/South Africa)
  13. Dobet Gnahore “Palea” (Ivory Coast)

 

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Playlist: 17 May

 

1. Logo Music :"The African Connection Sig Tune" Richard Nwamba

2. Simphiwe Dana "Bantu Biko Street" (RSA)

3. " " "Sizophum' Elokishini" "

4. " " "Sebenzile" "

5. " " "Ihilihili" "

6. " " "Umthandazo" "

7. Thomas Mapfumo "Buka Tiende" (Zimbabwe) 8. Madilu System "Kamul Inter" (DRC)

9. Cheikh Lo "Guiss Guiss" (Senegal)

10. Leyanis Lopez "Violin Tambor" (Cuba) 11. Super Mama Djombo "Bissau Quila Muda" (Guinea-Bissau)

12. Bana "Compadre Francisco" (Cape Verde)

13. Njava "Paoary" (Madagascar)

African Connection - Playlist - 14 June

 
  1. Logo Music (Richard Nwamba)
  2. Toure Kunda “Natalia” (Senegal)
  3. Lura “Galanton” (Cape Verde)
  4. Cesaria Evora “Besame Mucho” (Cape Verde)
  5. Tete Alhinho “Sao Horas de Dormir “ (Cape Verde)
  6. Mapumba “Mimi” (RSA/DRC)
  7. Mapumba “Mwafwako” (RSA/DRC)
  8. Bonga “Paz Em Angola” (Angola)
  9. Lulendo “Monama” (Angola)
  10. Pepe Kalle “Gerant” (DRC)
  11. Shabalala Rhythm “Umaqondana” (RSA)
  12. Aura Msimang “Rebana Ba Lesotho” (RSA)
  13. Chiwoniso “Nguva Yekufara” (Zimbabwe)
  14. Tarika “Taraina” (Madagscar)
  15. Eric Wainaina “Ritwa Riaku” (Kenya)
  16. Maryam Mursal “Kufilaw” (Somalia)
  17. Cheb Mami “Zarartou” (Algeria)
  18. Vieux Farka Toure “Sangara” (Mali)
  19. Henri Dikongue “C’est la Vie” (Cameroon)
  20. Leyanis Lopez “Violin Tambor” (Cuba)
  21. Hijas del Sol “Ikope Ye Tollo” (Equatorial Guinea
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