{"id":21326,"date":"2024-03-19T18:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=21326"},"modified":"2024-03-19T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:23:35","slug":"esinam-sibusile-xaba-unveil-debut-collaborative-single-africa-wola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=21326","title":{"rendered":"ESINAM &#038; Sibusile Xaba unveil debut collaborative single, &#8216;Africa Wola&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21328\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ESINAM-Sibusile-Xaba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"537\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esinamdogbatse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESINAM<\/a> and South African guitarist, songwriter and composer <a href=\"https:\/\/sibusilexaba.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sibusile Xaba<\/a> have joined forces for a collaborative track. The result is &#8216;Africa Wola&#8217;, a vibrant celebration of heritage and identity that &#8220;that is sang for Africa and Africans, both in the continent and of diaspora&#8221;, as the pair puts it. A heartfelt homage to the beauty and complexity of Africa, &#8216;Africa Wola&#8217; beckons all Africans to take pride and cherish their cultural heritage. The single is out now through <a href=\"https:\/\/werfrecords.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W.E.R.F. Records<\/a> and you can listen to it below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=1823273961\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esinamandsibusilexaba.bandcamp.com\/track\/africa-wola-2\">Africa Wola de ESINAM &amp; SIBUSILE XABA<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist ESINAM and South African guitarist, songwriter and composer Sibusile Xaba have joined forces for a collaborative track. The result is &#8216;Africa Wola&#8217;, a vibrant celebration of heritage and identity that &#8220;that is sang for Africa and Africans, both in the continent and of diaspora&#8221;, as the pair puts it. A heartfelt homage to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3137,1976],"class_list":["post-21326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-esinam","tag-sibusile-xaba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21331,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21326\/revisions\/21331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}