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Putumayo Presents: Women of Africa
 
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Putumayo Presents: Women of Africa
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Product Details
  • Audio CD (April 27, 2004)
  • Original Release Date: April 27, 2004
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Putumayo World Music
  • ASIN: B0001DD0DU
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars 11 customer reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #54,692 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)
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1. Le Tshephile Mang (South Africa) - Judith Sephuma Listen Listen
2. Bahia (Benin) - Angelique Kidjo Listen Listen
3. Mi Nada Um Ca Tem (Cape Verde) - Maria De Barros Listen Listen
4. Mayihlome (South Africa) - Sibongile Khumalo Listen Listen
5. Retany (Radio Edit) (Madagascar) - Tarika Listen Listen
6. To Ndje (Cameroon) - Kaissa Listen Listen
7. Mfan' Omncane (Zimbabwe/South Africa) - Dorothy Masuka Listen Listen
8. Hima (Comoros) - Nawal Listen Listen
9. Abiani (Ivory Coast) - Dobet Gnahore Listen Listen
10. Raoui (Algeria) - Souad Massi Listen Listen
11. Sina Mali, Sina Deni (Free) (Burundi) - Khadja Nin Listen Listen
12. Vimba (South Africa) - Women Of Mambazo Listen Listen

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Women have always been at the center of sub-Saharan music, as they were the keepers of the hearth, intimately involved in the life-sustaining mysteries of agriculture, food preparation, birth, and death. However, Africa, like the rest the world, is in the throes of social change. Female roles are evolving and the artists heard here represent a confident, worldly sensibility. The roster encompasses Dorothy Masuka's comfortable, gospel-flavored South African jazz, Maria de Barrios' sensual Cape Verdean morna, and a liltingly tonal ballad from Paris-based Algerian refugee Souad Massi. But a major reason to purchase this album is the track by Khadja Nin of Burundi; her deep-toned, knowing, unpolished voice transforms a Stevie Wonder tune into an ecstatic anthem of empowerment. Despite the occasional overuse of easy-fix electric keyboards, each singer emerges as a force to be reckoned with as, one by one, their voices salute the earth and soar into the heavens. --Christina Roden