Jabulani Library

THE "AFRICAN FIESTA NATIONAL" UNSUNG HERO

January 07, 2025 - 04:21 PM By JEROME OGOLA Dead men tell no tales, and this reality offers authors a license to skew history in a manner that hoists them as heroic status than they really are in reality. Writing while every other player is dead, inspires the writer to make statements that may be untrue as he is sure to get away with. In his book, Les Couilises De La Musique Congolaise, writer Faugus Izeidi, has been accused by pundits of trying to gobble more limelight through his writings, than he really worked for, as a musician. The bone of contention has largely been about the innovation of the mi-solo guitar, which he claims to be his creation. This position as presented in his narrations, could......

LOSAMBO LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY EXTRA MUSICA

January 07, 2025 - 01:27 PM IntroLosambo ya Extramoto soki nanu akufi te koseka ye teif a man has not passed away don't laugh at himtata nzamne yo ka losambo eh , losambo losamboChorus:Tata Nzambe yoka losambo ya bana God, Father Listen to the prayers of your sonstolamukaka na tongo po toluka la vieThey get up every morning to look for a better lifetolamukaka na tongo po tomeka nzoto They get up to try to get a better lifepesa nguya papa po tokaka yangoGive them power in order to make them succeed1st soloah nzambe tata yo okeli ngayiOh god you created me after all the things on the earthyo opesi moto mayele koleka biloko binso okelaYou gave the man intelligence more than all things you createdpona nini ngayi te?......

THE FAKE COUP

January 06, 2025 - 03:00 PM COLONEL BANGALA This is Leopoldville Governor Alphonse Bangala , immortalized in Franco's 1966 song 'Colonel Bangala' which has superb sax by Verckys, equally superb soloing by Franco and Franco himself sings as he is backed by Mujos and Boyibanda. President Mobutu faked a coup to gauge who was loyal and who was not, among his top government officials. The fake coupe was headed by Bangala who recruited and sought the support of several cabinet ministers, politicians, military guys, and other state officials. Those who fell for the trick were executed among them former Prime Minister Evariste Kimba, together with three cabinet members, Jerome Anany (Defence Minister), Emanuel Bamba......

MPONGO LOVE BIOGRAPHY

January 06, 2025 - 11:50 AM BIOGRAPHY OF MPONGO LOVE M’Pongo Love, whose real name Alfride M’Pongo Landu is a Congolese musician. She is well known for her soft soprano voice but even more importantly she succeeded in becoming a successful musician despite being disabled. Along with Mbilia Bel, Tshala Mwana, and Abeti Masikini, she is considered one of the greatest female Congolese musicians. MPONGO LOVE’s CHILDHOOD AND EARLY CAREER She was born August 27, 1956, in Boma, a city on the Congo River near the western African coast Her father was an army officer in charge of a military base. Her mother was the director of a social center for the education of girls. In 1960, she......

BOYA YE LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

January 02, 2025 - 09:00 PM LINGALA LYRICS Oh mama ahOh mama ahBaseki nga mingi na batoBoya ye ehBoya ye ehBoya ye ehOh mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahBatuni nga mingi na batoMobali nini oza nayeMosala te, Ndako teKiti te, falanga teOh mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahMokangi motema oh mamaBapasi nioso okomonaOh mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahLiputa moko okolataOsukoli mosusu pe okozela ekawuka mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahBato bakoseka eh, bato bakoloba ehBoya ye ehBoya ye ehBoya ye ehBato bakofinga eh, bato bakotongo ohKima ye ehKima ye ehKima ye ehOh mama ahOh mama ahOh mama ahLiputa nioso epasuki ehEeh Mwana Panzu na nga ahKipungi nioso enzuluki na nzoto ehNga nameseni na nga ahBapasi nioso nakomonaLelo po na lingui......

LES RUMEURS LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FRANCO

January 02, 2025 - 04:00 PM [Chorus]Mboka epanzani sango ee ee[The town is spreading rumours about me]Mboka epanzi ngai sango, balobi.. 'akoti lopitalo ee[They are saying 'he is in hospital']Balobi.. 'bamoni ye nga ngaliema ee[They are saying 'he was seen in Ngaliema']Balobi.. 'akende na Bruxelles ee[They are saying 'he has gone to Brussels']Balobi.. 'bamoni na Anvers eeThey are saying 'he was seen at Anvers']Balobi.. 'Akende na Paris ee[They are saying 'he has gone to Paris']Balobi.. 'bamoni na Geneve ee[They are saying 'he was seen in Geneva']Balobi.. 'Akende na Amerika ee'[They are saying 'He has gone to the USA']Parti etat, efuteli ye ticket oo[He has received his flight ticket]x2 Franco:Swela obota ngai, ngai......

BADIBANGA WA TSHILUMBA: THE LES MANGELEPA MASTER SHOWMAN

January 02, 2025 - 03:58 PM BY JEROME OGOLA Described by Standard Newspaper cartoonist Mado as “a band within a band”, Badibanga Wa Tshilumba aka Kaikai was a spectacle to behold in Les Mangelepa shows. His showmanship oozed naturally. He was a master of the stage. Although trying to do his choreography in synchrony with the other members on stage, he oftentimes ended up a one man show as he outwitted them. He knew how to do it. Badibanga Wa Tshilumba was a rare talent. He was Nairobi's most known trombone player, and possibly the only one in the secular circles outside the military. He made his trombone miraculously outstanding, thus creating a wonderful harmony with the super saxophones......

KAMARU'S JOURNEY IN MUSIC

December 31, 2024 - 09:33 PM BY JEROME OGOLA There was a musician who was summoned to Gatundu by Mzee Kenyatta, the then Kenya's president, and thoroughly flogged by an angry Mzee. This was a popular celebrity gossip that also made inroads to political discourses in the mod 1970s.What was the musician, and what was the dispute that made old Jomo, that angry? It was all about a song that was released after the assassination of JM Kariuki, pointing an accusing finger at Mzee Kenyatta and suggesting he was complicit. Two songs had been released at the time, themed on the assassination. The songs were by DK Mwai and Joseph Kamaru, both of which were popularly Kikuyu musicians of the day. The person who was flogged......

THE MYSTERY OF THE MALAIKA COMPOSER AND MBOYA'S CONTRIBUTION

December 29, 2024 - 07:21 PM BY JEROME OGOLA When Kenyan pugilist Robert Nangila was boxed to death in Las Vegas in 1994, a bizarre tussle on who his father emerged with a dozen guys coming up to claim paternity. This could definitely be attributed to his success in the ring, being the only African to win a gold medal in the Olympics and with this kind of achievement, the former star boy had definitely built an enormous financial empire. Malaika is undoubtedly the most popular Swahili song. The ballad has traversed the world, recorded hundreds of times by different musicians, and performed uncountable times. The song is the 'Guantanamera' of East Africa. It hasn't just happened. It has been there for many......

MAKEBA: MAMA AFRICA

December 23, 2024 - 12:47 PM By Jerome Ogola She performed in Kenya's independence fete in Nairobi in 1963, she carried the Name of Mama Africa, for wearing the face of resilience and determination, she became the most successful African female musician, she was an anti-apartheid crusader, and this isn't all. She collaborated with American calypso legend Harry Belafonte in 1965, in a venture that yielded the 15-track album, A Evening with Belafonte and Makeba, she was once married to Jazz superstar Hugh Masekela, she spent almost her entire life exiled abroad and only made a return when South Africa gained independence in the early 1990s. She is Mirriam Zenzile Makeba. All these accolades don't adequately......