Throwback Weekend Burners: Best Tracks of the Week from May 2013

Ready to rewind to May 2013? Weekend Burners shares the best African songs from that week. Listen and download the African hits that shaped the sound.

Photography/Art by Paul Sika.

We realize our site cycles through an, at times, overwhelming number of videos, tracks, remixes and mixtapes from a deluge of African/diaspora artists that not everyone is familiar with — in fact, we've gotten a large amount of reader feedback stating so. With Weekend Burners we aim to address that by highlighting our choices of the best music content that made it on the blog throughout the week. Get 'em below straight from the Okayafrica bunker:

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Premiere: Kae Sun ‘Afriyie’ [Album Stream]

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Premiere: South Africa’s Flame, Umlilo ‘Living Dangerously’

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Camp Mulla ‘All In’ ft. M.anifest + ‘oH mA gAd’

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Zongo Junction ‘Elephant & Mosquito’ (Captain Planet Remix)

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Benin City ‘Faithless’

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Brotha Onaci x DrewCool ‘Township Treats’ Mixtape

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