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relocated to London, and only six years later, when he was fifteen, his
parents took him to Ngorongoro, Tanzania, where they had found jobs.
During his schooling in Dar es Salaam and Moshi, he established two
bands that played various styles of music—rock, reggae, and Congolese
rumba (Sanga 2011). Mzungu Kichaa is a multi-instrumentalist who plays
violin, flute, guitar, and percussion. Through one of his former school-
mates, P-Funk Majani, owner of the Bongo Records label, he became
involved in the Bongo flava music scene as early as 1999. However, it was
to take him ten years before he eventually released his first solo album,
Tu k o Pa m o j a (We are together, 2009). Meanwhile, he had been studying in
London at the School of Oriental and African Studies, where he obtained
a bachelor’s degree in music and social anthropology and a master’s in
African studies with a special focus on music. During his time in Brit-
ain, Mzungu Kichaa jammed with African musicians who were playing
Congolese rumba. Then in 2006 he founded yet another band, Effigong,
in Copenhagen. Back in Tanzania, where he relocated in 2008, his song
“Jitolee!” (Volunteer!), featuring Tanzanian rapper Professor Jay, proved
a big hit and was third on the East African tv video charts. His ep,Hustle,
which contains a duet with Kenyan singer Dela, came out in 2012. Mzungu
Kichaa has been nominated twice for a Danish World Music Award—in
2009 in the category of Best World Album for Tu k o Pa m o j a and in 2012 in
the category of Best World Track for “Twende Kazi” (Come and work).
EES (aka “Easy” Eric Sell) is a Namibian of German ancestry.^3 Born
in 1983, he is from the Namibian capital city of Windhoek. He started his
career in Namibia in 2001 as a musician and music producer. Beginning
as a hip-hopper, whose German raps addressed primarily the German-
Namibian minority, he later switched to Kwaito, singing mainly in Eng-
lish and therefore expanding his fan base considerably. A fter receiving
vocational training as a professional sound engineer in Cape Town, South
Africa, he left for Germany. EES has been living in Cologne since 2004 and
spends several months each year in Windhoek, where he runs the music
label EES records and the fashion label EES wear. By 2013, he had released
twelve albums, most of which fall under the Kwaito category. In southern
Africa, his musical career gained momentum in about 2008. Since then,
he has won several awards in Namibia, including the Namibian Annual
Music Awards (2009) accolade Artist of the Year. For the video clip of his