#afriye

[fyblackwomenart]

Afriye by Isabella Watling

[localwifipoacher]

Kae Sun 🎶

Against All Odds, its a black star rising

[studioafrica]

The question of what counts as African music is becoming more irrelevant as the rest of the globally networked world becomes more familiar. Afriyie is Ghanaian in a way that is only starting to become prevalent in our contemporary moment. It is representative of a national identity, more like the color of a passport, rather than ancestral tradition or cultural representation. It is place and time specific, and doesn’t seem weighed down by a need to play identity politics. It represents the place where the artist is at, as a culmination of life experiences, rather than a romantic obsession, or longing for the past. This is notable for an artist who has moved recently from one country in the global south, to another in the north.

Chief Boima | "Teasing Out the Many Threads of Kae Sun’s Afriyie"

Stream Kae Sun's album Afriye HERE