This playlist showcases songs from an African mixtape that circulated in the early 1980s among Philadelphia‘s African immigrants.

Sammy Ayany, a young Kenyan, living in Philadelphia, made the tape for a friend. It passed through many hands and was really important to Africans who were new to the States because it reminded them of home.

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