Saturday 8 August 2009

17. Mahmoud Ahmed sings for the DERG

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Not "traditional" Ethiopian music - strictly-speaking - but a good song and a remarkable music video! (Watch out for the soldier "playing air guitar" on his AK-47!)

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Mahmoud Ahmed is one of Ethiopia's most famous singers, and it is a shame to see him in this video.
(Apologies for not embedding this video, but the ever-more-fickle YouTube tells me that "embedding [was] disabled by request"...)
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UPDATE FEBRUARY 2012
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Alas, the entire video has now disappeared - apparently due to copyright infringement(?!)...
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So here is a concert given by the Eritrean singer Wedi Tkabo for frontline troops. Not as funky as the Mahmoud Ahmed original, but more traditional and still a strange sight to behold:
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