Africa Is a Country

Video: Akon's "Africa"

Video: Akon's "Africa"

By
Sean Jacobs

The R&B singer, Akon has released his own 2010 World Cup song with the original title “Africa.”  (Akon is the second R&B or rap singer–the other is K’Naan–to release a World Cup related song.) Keri Hilson, in zebra top (it’s African remember) joins Akon.  The sight in the video of some world class footballers kicking balls that turn into splashes of paint may be enough to excite some people. But  the song sounds like the stuff South African singer P J Powers would come up with.

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I’ll take a pass.

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