Seven years after Waka Waka (This Time for Africa), that iconic song sung and danced to by Shakira and her South African companions at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, comes a worthy successor -- Africa Unite. The new song is sung by the equally fine and animated Nsoki, from Lusophone Angola.
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The motivational song is danced to by her superbly choreographed dance-troupe. They are all so wonderfully 'backstopped' by the ever-resourceful DJ Maphorisa, and DJ Paulo Alves. The stage is a feline high-voltage affair from beginning to end. The singing makes the aural sensibilities soar. The visual effects are bewitching in a consensual sort of way.
Nsoki and team have surely and marvelously succeeded in blending particular and broadly apt content (a distilled narrative of African political, economic and cultural unity) and form (African song and dance at the highest level of synchronized artistry) into Africa's best pop song of 2017.
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