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- noun music A genre of
Kenyan popularmusic
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Examples
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Not only do they reject every making a mistake, even when proven, they’re typically pscyhotic like phenga benga is to somehow treat ANY error as an admission of all failures.
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Genres like benga and jùjú took hold, and artists like Orchestra Baobab and Kuti found success beyond the continent.
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A sat wuguga sat ju benga jo-ho … (Chor: „ Pata Pata)
miriam makeba | mama afrika « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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A sat wuguga sat ju benga sat si pat … (Chor: „ Pata)
miriam makeba | mama afrika « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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A sat wuguga sat ju benga sat si pata … (Chor: „ Pata)
miriam makeba | mama afrika « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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A sat wuguga sat ju benga sat si pat … (Chor: „ Pata)
miriam makeba | mama afrika « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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A sat wuguga sat ju benga sat si pat … (Chor: „ Pata)
miriam makeba | mama afrika « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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(Soundbite of song "Pata Pata") Ms. MIRIAM MAKEBA (South African Singer): (Singing) Sat wuguga sat ju benga sat si pata pat.
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(Soundbite of song “Nyajondere”) BRADY: At this album's heart are three songs that rub benga and rock together to produce a wonderful amount of musical heat.
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(Soundbite of song “Ilando Gima Onge”) BRADY: Eagleson was in Kenya to study benga, a type of dance music popular in the clubs of Nairobi, and throughout the villages and towns of western Kenya.
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