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Djiu De Galinha (Guinea Bissau)

Keba Cissoko, Famoro Dioubate, Chikako Iwahori, Sylvain Leroux, Rufus Cappadocia, Peter Fand, Stefan Monssen
“Galinha Island.” A Mandinka-Portuguese creole song from the early 1960s by José Carlos. Originally sung about a Portuguese political prison, it is adapted by Keba Cissoko into a contemporary antiwar song which repeatedly asks the question, “When is war going to end in Africa?”