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Laibach - Allgorhythm (feat. Wiyaala) [Official Video]

Special thanks to everyone who danced online, and to the algorithm for bringing them to us. - Laibach

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Makoma by Onipa featuring Wiyaala

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This week on the edge of a silver dollar are Hazy Sundays, Dr. Feelgood, Res, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Issac Birituro & The Rail Abandon, TIGRIS, Montparnasse Musique, Gregory Issacs, The Residents, GENN, Ruth Goller, pecq, Genesis, Alabaster DePlume and The Monkees

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Music and musicians from Africa Part 3: Noella Wiyaala 

Ghanaian singer Noella Wiyaala (known under the stage name Wiyaala) is one of Africa’s rising stars. She sings in her native Sissala and Waale dialects as well as English, often combining all three languages in one song. She’s also a social activist who’s outspoken about male-dominated culture and polygyny in African countries. Here she is with Make Me Dance.

More links for further reading (and viewing):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiyaala

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-45760756/ghanaian-afro-pop-star-wiyaala-on-forging-her-own-path

@todayintokyo 

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World Music Star Wiyaala Draws Attention To Issue Of ‘Language Extinction’ With New Album

One of Africa’s brightest music stars, Wiyaala, dubbed “The Young Lioness of Africa”, renowned not just for her vocal and writing talents but as a champion of women’s rights around the world, is now intent on drawing attention to the issue of endangered languages and aims to put it on the political agenda.

As a native of Ghana, Wiyaala is acutely aware of the concerns across the globe relating to the extinction of species but believes that the extinction of languages should also be pushed to the forefront of people’s minds. She has therefore decided that on her soon-to-be released new album, in addition to her commercial pop sound, epitomised by her latest release, “Better Treat Me Right”, she should also include tracks recorded in the dialect of Sisaala spoken in her home village of Funsi.

The latest surveys estimate that less than one thousand people in the North Western area of Ghana bordering Burkina Faso still speak this dialect.

As Wiyaala explains:

"I love to sing in Sisaala. It is sonically beautiful. Like folk songs from all "local" languages, Sisaala songs contain deep truths about context, living and being. In different villages they have different sounds for the same thing. For example, in Tumu, “Wia” can mean “God” or “Sun”; in Funsi, the word is “Wiisi”; in Walembale (between Tumu and Funsi), they say “Wihi”. And yet everybody knows the meaning”

“If I sing Sisaala songs to you and you like them, the language and culture will live on. Therefore, if I can encourage others to look to music as a way to keep their cultural languages alive then I feel that there is a chance to draw attention to the issue of ‘language extinction’. This is not just an issue for third world countries but one that exists very much in Europe as well. We need to ask ourselves the question of how to save languages only spoken by a small number in order to maintain our identity.”

Wiyaala sings “Wiisi” in Sisaala below 

Having made the UK her second home over the past few years, Wiyaala sees this issue as especially pertinent to this country, hoping to encourage recording artists from regions across Britain and nearby to embrace the idea then broaden it to a global matter.

By starting to feature three tracks on her new album sung in Sisaala, those Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Welsh and even Cornish speakers may wish to join her campaign and in turn feature their music on an ‘endangered language’ album which she is starting to develop. As it is estimated that these combined languages alone are only spoken by around 800,000 people, Wiyaala is campaigning now for the need to pass on their unique voices and musical traditions to the youth before it is too late.

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Confirmed Acts

With a week to go until the first semi-final, it’s time to announce the first 10 acts who will be featuring at some point during the selection process for Ghana’s entry to @africavision!

Becca

Bisa Kdei

Efya

Fuse ODG

Guvna B

MzVee

Reggie ‘n’ Bollie

Stonebwoy

Tinchy Stryder

Wiyaala

If you would like to recommend any other artists to be entered into the semi-final stage, leave us a message either here or here.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o484kiMdnrU)