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Sep. 13, 2013 10:00AM EST

Weekend Burners: The Best Tracks & Music Videos Of The Week

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

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In Weekend Burners we highlight our choices of the best African 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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DJ Mujava ‘From PTA To Liverpool’

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The GTW x SSENSE

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Oddisee ‘After Thoughts’

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BIG FKN GUN "Wunga"

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John Wizards 'Limpop'

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Nástio Mosquito’s ‘Se Eu Fosse Angolano’

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Voices of Black "Imaginary One Time Love"

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Jumping Back Slash x Kelly Rowland "Like This (JBS Gqom Dub)"

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Umlilo "The Elements"

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A.L.V. "O"

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The female gaze is paramount to the way in which the aforementioned visual stories are told and the female photographers here are using their camera lenses to give us glimpses of lands, peoples, histories, and futures unknown. Their individual experiences and perspectives are widening the scope of what is believed to be Côte d'Ivoire. Within the country's capital, Abidjan, there's a creative scene that seems to have sprawled up out of nowhere yet is so rich in its offerings.

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