Ata Kak – Daa Nyinaa

Ata Kak - Obaa Sima

Every week, French newspaper Le Monde shares three African songs from past or present. Which is a good way to keep up with my French and also to discover artists I had never heard of. Such as Ghanean singer Ata Kak, who mixes electro-funk and hiphop with the local music genre of highlife. Daa Nyinaa was originally recorded in 1994 and released on an album of which only three copies were sold (according to a slightly biased Wikipedia page) but his songs have since been rediscovered and streamed millions of times and it’s not hard to hear why.

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