Janka Nabay: The Bubu King of Sierra Leone
Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang. (Photo: Bubu Gang)
Janka Nabay is known in his native Sierra Leone as the Bubu King.
Bubu is a kind of high-energy music.
Nabay fled the aftermath of Sierra Leone’s civil war and he is now in the US, with a new band, playing the music from home.
Mirissa Neff has his story.
Schedule: Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang at SXSW.
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