Track Listing

1. Soul Makossa - Youssou N'Dour
2. Biko - Alex Brown, Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mamba
3. Wakafrika - Manu Dibango
4. Emma - Salif Keita, Sinead O'Connor
5. Homeless - Ray Lema, Sinead O'Connor
6. Lady - Ray Phiri, Sinead O'Connor
7. Hi-Life - King Sunny Ade
8. Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
9. Ami Oh! - Angelique Kidjo, Papa Wemba
10. Jingo - King Sunny Ade
11. Pata Pata - Kaissa Doumbe
12. Diarabi - Bonga, Toure Kunda
13. Ca Va Choula - Manu Dibango

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43154 in Music
• Released on: 1994-06-14
• Number of discs: 1

From Amazon.com
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