Kao Denero’s song – ‘Lumumba Story’ is highly rated among African hip hop songs

Freetown | 23rd April 2020 | Vertex Media

Just when some people think that the Sierra Leonean and African Rap King is all focus on diss tracks against co-rappers, then emerges a legendary song titles ‘Lumumba Story’, by Amara Denis Turay popularly known as Kao Denero, featuring Block Jones. The song has received the greatest applause, admiration and commendations from people of various walks of life, more especially hip hop fans across Africa. Social media is abuzz with reactions from YouTubers and bloggers on the lyrical prowess, legendary deliveries and the poetic skills of Kao Denero in his latest hit, ‘Lumumba Story’.

‘The Lumumba Story’ is a classic song from the ‘KISS THE THRONE’ album, it reveals and celebrates the history and life of a martyr and a pan-Africanist, Patrice Lumumba, a great Congolese leader. According to Kao Denero, the ‘Lumumba story can be anyone of us’, drawing inferences to what many Africans are going through today – modern slavery.

From history, Africa’s quest for a pan African movement has met tough resistances from the West, using our African brothers to stage uprisings against the pioneers. That was how Patrice Lumumba’s stay was cut short, same as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, and others.

“Patrice Lumumba was for a unitary Congo and against division of the country along ethnic or regional lines. Like many other African leaders, he supported pan-Africanism and the liberation of colonial territories. He proclaimed his regime one of “positive neutralism,” which he defined as a return to African values and rejection of any imported ideology , including that of the Soviet Union.”
An excerpt reads.

Kao Denero highlighted how foreign powers are still life difficult for Africans,

“… they trynna make it toxic like they did to Lumumba,
They eradicated my heroes na watin lef for do ba?”…

This was achieved through their Western cronies.

In his first verse, Kao stated African resources or riches were exchanged for the Bible

“Whatever they do never worry us,
Kao’s from the blood land of warriors,_
He is so marvellous,
The lyrical discipline,
Tight bars protect the title,

They stole all our riches and gave us the Bible,
Blood is a Bible,
But we still goin’ strong,
Survival of the fittest where the King come from”

The rapper incarnates the Lumumba Story to resonate well with the current struggles many Africans are going through due to bad leadership. “We are still stuck in poverty”

Many agree that the song is educative of our history as Africans, and it’s quite rare for such a strong message being put into lyrics. Kao Denero is also revered as the greatest African rapper in contemporary music. The ‘Lumumba Story’ is a masterpiece project, one of it’s kind we have seen in the rap scene.

Meanwhile, Kao Denero’s latest album ‘KISS THE THRONE’ is running out of stock in Freetown and beyond, after it has been put out on sale a week ago. The album contains 16 solid tracks, plus 2 bonus tracks. It is already the best hip hop album in 2020.

By Ibrahim Sorious Samura