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The love for our mothers

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African Five-a-Side Podcast

The love for our mothers

By
Hinda Talhaoui

The series, Paris Is a Continent, is on number 6. Songs about our moms and break-up songs sung by men that women will like, among others.

Image: Stephane Pardo, via Flickr CC.

I thought I’d continue my focus on French women singers. First up is Kayna Samet: great voice, from Algeria. This song, titled “Yema” (mother in Arabic), is about the love for our mothers. It features Indila.

A medley of several French singers freestyle over Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin,” while promoting the first Zaho opus “Dima”:  Amel Bent, Kaylene, Lady Laystee, Melissa, all donate a verse. I know it’s old but it’s a freestyle with several singers so here we go.

Kenza Farah, featured here before, performing her single, “Sans jamais se plaindre.”

Finally, a breakup song women like that is made by a man: “Je regarde en l’air” by Mister You.

Further Reading

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In Tunisia’s coastal city of Gabès, residents live in the shadow of the phosphate industry. As pollution deepens and repression returns, a new generation revives the struggle for life itself.

After Paul Biya

Cameroon’s president has ruled for over four decades by silence and survival. Now, with dynastic succession looming and no clear exit strategy, the country teeters between inertia and implosion.

Leapfrogging literacy?

In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo.