Nigeria's music diva and "Kele
Kele Love" crooner, Tiwa Savage, is the guest on this week’s edition
of Globacom-sponsored African Voices on CNN International.
The half-hour magazine programme which features Africa's most
intriguing personalities who are shaping theAfrican continent in all walks of life is shown on CNN on Friday at 10.30
a.m., with repeat broadcasts at 4.30
p.m. on Saturday, and at 12.30
a.m. and 7.30 p.m. on Sunday. There are
further repeats at 11.30 a.m. on Monday and at 5.30 a.m. on Tuesday.
Globacom announced in a press statement released in Lagos on
Friday that delectable Tiwa Savage will feature on the programme with
South African musician, Thandiswa Mazwai.
Tiwa Savage emerged
on Nigeria’s music scene in 2010 with her smash hit Kele Kele Love.
Her other hit singles include Love, Love Me (3x), Without My Heart and Ife
Wa Gbona.
Born in Lagos,
Nigeria, Tiwa graduated from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom with
a degree in business administration and accounts. She however decided to forgo
accounting when she got an opportunity to be a back-up singer for Mary J.
Blige. She has also performed for internationally acclaimed artistes such
as Chaka Khan, George Michael, Emma Bunton (Spice Girls), Blu Cantrell and
Kelly Clarkson. She has worked with renowned producers such as Black Eyed Peas
drummer Keith Harris, Oak Warren Felder (Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown), Babyface
and many others.
Thandiswa Mazwai, the second guest on the programme, is acclaimed as one of the most influential musicians in South
Africa. She is also the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bongo
Maffin. She was raised in Soweto by parents who were both journalists and
anti-apartheid political activists.
According to Thandiswa, the heavy apartheid
township violence of the 1980s shaped her perspective as an
artiste, adding that the writings of personalities like Steve Biko, Frantz
Fanon, Chinua Achebe and Kwame Nkuruma have always inspired her writings.
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