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25.11.2013 Celebrity

POEM: The SAMINI Moment In African Music

By Kwaku Asante
POEM: The SAMINI Moment In African Music
25.11.2013 LISTEN

This is a little something I penned down after seeing a flawless and vibrant performance of Africa's Dancehall King, Samini at the GUINNESS Eruption Concert on Saturday.

The Samini Moment:

Rock of ages with a decade's earmark,

The shatter of Shattas,

The eyeless sees his shine,

The deaf appreciates his songs,

He is a beef, yet an offal for peer- performers,

A phial for the weak performers

A viol for the weak instruments,

A flue to the eyeful, yet inherently eyeful,

One who brings the philia in the evil-eye,

Ended up getting all the plaudits from critics,

Charisma like Obama yet persistent like Putin

Sings like Presley yet rocks like Jackson

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