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Jul. 12, 2013 12:53PM EST

Weekend Burners: Best Tracks of the Week

Download the best African hip-hop music tracks and music videos released this week.

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In Weekend Burners we highlight our choices of the best music videos, tracks and mixes that came across our desks throughout the week. Get ‘em below straight from the Okayafrica bunker:

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Blitz the Ambassador ‘DIKEMBE!’

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Ondatrópica "Chop 'n' Quench" (Fela Kuti Cover)

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Petite Noir 'Noirse' (Fort Romeau Remix)

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Laura Mvula "She"

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Sarkodie ‘Original’

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Nneka "Kangpe"

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Sammus "DL"

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Young Fathers ‘Queen Is Dead’

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The Netherlands has returned to Nigeria a 600-year-old stolen artefact, the Ife Terracotta, which has been received by Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

According to The Guardian Nigeria, the Netherlands has returned a 600-year-old artefact to Nigeria. This comes after the artefact was reportedly smuggled using fraudulent papers through Ghana to the Dutch country. Netherlands ambassador to Nigeria, Harry van Dijk, handed over the Ife Terracotta to Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture. The repatriation of the small but "priceless" Ife Terracotta has been a long journey considering it was reportedly smuggled out of Nigeria in 2019.

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