Mteja, a collaborative effort between diverse artistes Wahu, Juliani, Roba (Kalamashaka), Lyn, Wenyeji ,Kanjii and the International Commission Of Jurists (Kenya) has been birthed to deliver a significant message. A message about the right to information as well as its importance to the youth.This song is done with the conviction that we all have a right to know thing like-how much of the CDF money is spent and how.

Watch the video here

American President Barack Obama will be visiting Ghana July 10-11. It will be his first visit to a Sub-Saharan African country, he visited Egypt earlier this year. Ghanaian musicians always come together to compose songs for various campaigns and Ohene-Media Music, One Mic Entertainment and Lynx Entertainment have united to produce this 'Akwaaba' song. This follows the many Barack Obama songs composed by African musicians since he emerged on the scene. You can see the video below.

In the spirit of Follow Friday, we'll list a few more African musicians on Twitter. See the first list at this link. Twitter is a social network where people post 'tweets' or status updates ala Facebook. It's become a web phenomenon as Barack Obama used it in his presidential campaign and it has many other celebrities. Various websites and media organizations have Twitter accounts as well. There are many African musicians on Twitter as well and this blog post will list some of them for you to follow.

This article was first published by Expose Newspaper
By Elvis Muraranganda - elvis@exposenewspaper.com

For the first time in the Namibian music history, gospel artist can look forward to an award that is organized and designed especially for them. The Namibia Gospel Music Awards (NGOMA) is open to all Namibian gospel artists, defined as artists whose music is at least 80% gospel.

The event that promises to be glamorous and entertaining is jointly being organized by Valentina Events and Entertainment Management (V.E.E.M) and Clive Willemson Productions. The event is planned for October 2009 at Country Club. Details will be shared at the NGOMA launch in June.

Exposé spoke to a couple of gospel artists and other major players in Namibia’s gospel industry about the awards and asked them questions of what their general perception is.

Originally posted as a "Bank Statement" at http://bankyw.blogspot.com. This is my response to the article entitled "A Nation's Identity Crisis" that recently ran in The Guardian Newspapers. It was written by Mr Reuben Abati, a well respected name in Nigerian Journalism. His original article can be found here: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial_opinion/article02//indexn2_html?pdate=210609&ptitle=A%20Nation
Please try and read the original article before commenting on my response. As Mr Abati has stated his opinion, I felt it necessary to state mine. If anything I'm sure both pieces are at least food for thought.

Dear Sir,

In the immortal words attributed to P.T. Barnum, "I don't care what the newspapers say about me, at least spell my name right." My name IS Banky W, full name being Olubankole Wellington. Not Willington, as you stated in your article entitled "A Nation's Identity Crisis". I read the piece repeatedly, and found that misspelling my name wasn’t the only error. At it's worst, the article seemed like an attempt to discredit and slander an entire generation of artistes and consumers, and at best it came across as having some valid points but being grossly misinformed, prejudiced, and hypocritical; definitely not what we would expect of a highly regarded publication as The Guardian, or from a person in Mr Abati's position.

Tinny (Nii Addo Quaynor) aka Aletse Kankpe was nominated for Nigeria's Hip Hop World Awards.

A couple of weeks ago, http://www.pinnaclegh.com reported that Tinny had made Ghana proud at the Hip Hop World Awards held at the International Conference Centre in Abuja on the May 16. Tinny was nominated along with Witness Mwaijaga (Tanzania), Buffalo Solja (Zimbabwe) and another called Dogg. After the Ceremony the official website of the Hip Hop World Awards reported that the African Artiste of the year award went to Ghana's Tinny.

Our investigations have revealed that the category was not mentioned at the ceremony neither had Tinny received his award yet. When various media was reporting that the Ghanaian had won the award there was raging disagreement between Dogg and the organisers. Dogg was also reported in other media as having won the same award. It is only after a whole month that the award organisers have come clean as to who really won the award.

Zambia's Radio Phoenix 89.5FM (based in Lusaka) presents a weekly Rhythms countdown show of the top songs in Zambia. It is sponsored by Zain Zambia and presented by Len and I Candy.

Here is one of the latest weekly charts of top Rhythms: You can click the songs to see the videos or listen to them

JK feat OZZY AND PETERSEN - Ona mami
SHYMAN - Fendele fenduze
DANNY - Shishita

Soundcity, one of Africa's most popular music video shows organizes its own music video awards for Nigeria. This year's SMVAs edition will be held on the 1st of August, 2009 at The Soundcity Music Centre, Oceanview VI. The nominees and winners for last year's edition can be found here on this Museke.com link. It is sponsored by GLO, one of the biggest mobile communications operators in Nigeria, which has been supporting the Nigerian music industry in various ways. Multiple award nominees include 2Face Idibia, P-Square, J-Martins, D'Banj, Weird MC, etc.

You can vote online now at the SoundCity Music Video Awards website, it closes on July 25, 2009. If you live in Nigeria, you can also send SMS to 33 144 (lat N50 - 50 naira - per vote)

Here are the categories & nominees

Best Male Video
• Gino – Farabale
• Naeto C – Kini Big Deal
• Igho – Naija Boy
• Shank – Too Late
• Banky W – Capable Remix
• 9ice – Party Rider
• eLDee – Bosi Gbangba

"Shake your walewale and gologolo". Do you know who is behind this song? There have only been a few Ghanaian musicians who've featured on Channel O's radio countdown lately. They are Okyeame Kwame, Ghana's reigning musician of the year and Echo, an Afro-pop group who is a past winner of the Nescafe African Revelations contest in Ghana. We caught up with them to ask about their music, references about being a 'Nigerian' group, and their plans for their future. Below is the transcript of the interview.

Museke.com: How are you doing?
Echo: Everything is all blissful.

Museke.com: Can you tell us about your background and family?
Echo: Well, Echo comprises of two young energetic guys Charles and Elijah. Charles hails from the Eastern region and Elijah hails from Guan in the Volta region of Ghana. Charles happens to be the only child of his mum and Elijah is the last amongst 4 children. Elijah is a graduate from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi and Charles did radio and television courses and is hoping to enter into Meridian University in Accra.

A countdown of the top 10 songs in Rwanda. (Flavor Top 10)

Presented by Radio Salus, a radio station at NUR (National University of Rwanda).
01. Rahira – Liza ft Ben « The Ben» Mugisha
02. Bya bihe – Mani Martin
03. Mbwira Yego – Tom Close
04. Cari ciryoshye – Rafiki
05. Beretilida – Miss Jojo