Artist	Song
Geoffrey Oryema	Umoja
from Beat the Border (2007)
Women of the Calabash	Nkosi Sikelel' Iafrica
from The Kwanzaa Album (1999)
Salif Keita	Yele N Na
from Amen (1991)
Brenda Fassie	Black President
from African Music (2009)
Clifton Chenier	Bon Ton Roulet
from The Best of Clifton Chenier (2011)
Kahoro wa Kibochi/Karlus Trapp	Kwanzaa Nguzo Saba (Vocals)
from Kenya's Vernacular Songs (2003)
Aster Aweke	Yaz-Oh
from Kabu (2006)
Madou Djembé	Energie
from Percussions D'Afrique - African Drums (2009)
Kassav'	Zouk-La-Se Sel Medikaman Nou Ni
from Soca 101, Vol. 4 (2007)
Papa Wemba	Sakana
from Molokai (2007)
Johnson Mkhalali	Asambeni Sonke
from A Taste of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto (1993)
Queen Latifah	U.N.I.T.Y.
from Queen Latifah: She's a Queen - A Collection of Greatest Hits (2002)
Tarika	Raha tiany (Things We Like)
from Son egal (2006)
National Percussion Group of Kenya	Taka Chinja
from Roots!! - African Drums (1994)
Ras Moon	Uhuru Na Ujama
from Live Every Day (2009)

Comment:

To close out our Kwanzaa celebration, we've chosen three women who — both figuratively and literally — embody the principle of [i]Kuumba[/i], or "Creativity"; one from Africa, one who came to America from Africa, and one who has lived here all her life. The late "Madonna of the Townships," Brenda Fassie, carries the spirit of the seventh principle, [i]Imani[/i] (or "Faith"), like a burning torch to "Black President," her tribal-groove homage to South African hero Nelson Mandela. While Aster Aweke was born in Ethiopia, she's lived most of her life in Washington, D.C., and her voice swoops and soars on cross-cultural currents between her native and adopted lands in the high-spirited synth-pop of "Yaz-Oh" (whose subtitle for the linguistically challenged is "Grab It, Get It On"). Finally, Queen Latifah fights for her right — not to party, but to get her brothers' respect — in her golden-age-of-hip-hop hit "U.N.I.T.Y."

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