Dare I suggest that it might not be too much for our Caucasian-centric (ethnocentric?) audience to listen to a few folk songs in Yoruba. Sorry, but I hate this attitude, still far too prevelant among many folkies, that something has to be white and British before they'll listen to it. There's a whole world of traditional music out there and you know what? In over 40 years of listening to music from the Seychelles, Namibia, Romania, Turkmenistan or practically anywhere else on the planet, I've heard very little that has failed to knock me sideways.
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