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Oct. 11, 2013 09:00AM EST

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

Watch and download the best tracks and African music videos released this week.

Photography by Chris Saunders from the series "Troublesome Kids"

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

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Unreleased Audio: Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 Live In 1981 Amsterdam & 1988 Lagos Sunsplash

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Soundclash w/ BLK JKS x Just A Band x Sinkane x The Happy Show x Chief Boima

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Guinea Folk Remixed: Sembeh Ma Fa Fe Roots ft. Captain Planet, Chief Boima + more

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Mafikizolo x May D "Happiness"

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Ice Prince x French Montana ‘I Swear’

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Fuzzy Lights "Second Skin" [OLUGBENGA remix]

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Analog Africa Soundsystem DJ MIx for Gilles Peterson World Wide No. 714

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Auntie Flo "Zulu Death March (Weep Weep)"

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Thebe Magugu's AW21 Collection 'Alchemy' Is An Exploration of African Spirituality

Magugu collaborated with Kristin-Lee Moolman to create a '70s-style B movie called Banyoloyi A Bosigo

South African fashion designer Thebe Magugu has released his AW21 collection, Alchemy, and it is beautiful. For his latest collection, the 2019 LVMP prize winner introduced a redefinition of his previous work, Counter Intelligent, featuring embroidered chiffon dresses, pink blazers and cinched waist belts.

For the new collection, Thebe Magugu collaborated with the photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman to create a 1970s-style B movie called Banyoloyi A Bosigo. The short film, which is written, directed and photographed by Moolman, shows the power play between two rival girl gangs named the "ultimate midnite angels" who speak Zulu and Setswana.

The short film begins at the river with an initiation rite, then the sending out of the initiated woman to become a spy. There's also a love affair between two women of rival tribes that warrants a capture. Each scene of the movie introduces the fits to the collection as well as exhibiting the fluidity of the outfits.

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