Mirissa Neff

Mirissa Neff

Mirissa Neff is a journalist, art director and producer. Through her work for PBS's "Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders" and "Quick Hits," she tells stories about our world through the music we love.

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Janka Nabay: The Bubu King of Sierra Leone

March 14, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment
Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang. (Photo: Bubu Gang)

Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang. (Photo: Bubu Gang)

Janka Nabay is known in his native Sierra Leone as the Bubu King.

Bubu is a kind of high-energy music.

Nabay fled the aftermath of Sierra Leone’s civil war and he is now in the US, with a new band, playing the music from home.

Mirissa Neff has his story.

Schedule: Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang at SXSW.


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One comment for “Janka Nabay: The Bubu King of Sierra Leone”

  • Arguman

    I love true musicians and true artists like this guy. It’s all about the music. “Peace and love” is *not* a term that should be disparaged as unrealistic/liberally idealistic as it is by conservatives (and accepted as something to not be associated with unconditionally via our mass media)