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This Is Africa

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The Afroboss, DJ Edu, brings the biggest guests and hottest sounds from all over Africa

The Afroboss, DJ Edu, brings the biggest guests and hottest sounds from all over Africa.

With the hot new tunes from every corner of the motherland, This Is Africa is a weekly showcase of all-Africa musical talent.  
 
DJ Edu brings his rich musical knowledge of the African music scene.  
And each week there’s a big interview with star name from music, fashion, football, and more – they’ll be sharing what excites them in music right now. 

This Is Africa also each week features DJ Edu’s Ten in Ten: 10 tracks from 10 different countries in 10 minutes. 
And there’s a focus on new talent every time – the programme will always be introducing up and coming artists from a different African country.

This Is Africa: Sheebah

Sheebah

22/02/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - This Is Africa, Sheebah

One of Uganda's biggest stars shares her difficult journey to success

Sheebah Karungi, one of Uganda's biggest music stars, tells DJ Edu about her difficult journey to success, and why her mother doesn't support her career choices.

Sheebah Karungi is one of Uganda’s biggest music stars, but in a frank interview with DJ Edu, she reveals just how unlikely it was that she would make it big. She comes from a poor, one parent family, and left school at fourteen. She defied expectations and, through sheer determination, became a dancer, taught herself English, and released her first record. 
 
It still isn’t easy: her mother, who Sheebah sees as a role model, doesn’t support her career choices, and Sheebah regards relationships with men as too risky.  But Sheebah is not about to give up – in fact she says her journey to greatness has hardly begun!

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