By Chief Boima This past September I had the privilege to see Ahmed Janka Nabay, a Sierra Leonean singer currently living on the U.S. East Coast, perform at an underground party in Brooklyn, New York. I had been following and writing about Janka for a while after coming across Bubu music at a Sierra Leonean […]
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