In this original version, Sammy Ngaku tells us that he hail from Riabai where his mother Ngendo was buried. he learnt of his mother's death in hospital on the third of August. Although he knows that the angels have taken his mother to Heaven, he is both sad and frightened by the fact that he will never see her alive again, leading him to mourn for eight whole months.
A collection of long out-of-print funk and soul by artists from Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo and western Kenya. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 24, 2018