Dinkwe Nkgoga new album leaves revellers spellbound
Lesedi Mkhutshwa | Wednesday January 27, 2016 18:00
The audience was mesmerised by Photsana led by Ontiretse Bakaile Zuma aka Nthinthie.
The song speaks about young ladies and their romantic liaisons with sugar daddies. The song declares that young girls date older people in search of money which their age mates cannot provide.
The song of the moment, which is the title track, Seshashudi talks about people who do not want to reap what they have sown, but rather take short cuts and take what belongs to others.
The versatile traditional group played Mpee Diatla led by Masalila and the song talks about men who discard their girlfriends after having children with them.
The group introduced a gospel/traditional song titled Dipaka.
When giving a brief history of the group, Zuma said the group started in June 2007 with its first album Thoang Tsebe. The album had six tracks, Madume, Sebatlana, Re a Bina and Jesus Christ among others.
He added that in 2010 they released Ma Africa, which consisted of seven tracks amongst them Dumilani and Maboko. Nthinthie said that they achieved a lot after the Ma Africa album as they were recognised countrywide and gained support from Batswana.
“With publicity given by media houses Ma Africa album clinched a deal with the safe male circumcision campaign,” he said.
The traditional group is made up of the Francistown-based youth namely, Teedzani Tshabani, Keafentse Outule, Ernest Bathodi, Kenanao Tsholofelo, Michael Leonard, Tebogo Masalila, Tebogo Rramakatane and Zuma.
Frank Lesokwane affectionately known as Franco said the album consists of beautiful melodies with meaningful messages.
He encouraged them to keep up with the spirit of remaining resolute as a group even if they are facing obstacles. Allah Ntogwa from Bana Bana Ba Ntogwa Ikalanga traditional group shared the same sentiments with Franco indicating that the group has produced a good album.
Member of Parliament for Francistown West, Ignatius Moswaane described the album as top notch and declared that Seshashudi will take the traditional group to another level if they can brand and market it well.
After the album review, the audience was given a chance to pledge for the album launch pencilled for mid-March, a total of P7,600 was raised.