Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz
Sweet Mother, AIT 1976

I don’t understand either what’s the big deal with “Sweet Mother”, but “Aki Special” is one of my favorite songs ever.
More generally… thanks for spoiling us SO MUCH :)

Over at Awesome Tapes from Africa thursdayborn has a cassette of this with some excellent tracks from Ikenga Super Stars of Africa mixed in…it is worth a listen.

My favorite is “Christiana,” but this guy’s great all around. Never heard of him before, so thanks for spreading the goodness.

Nico Mbarga was bigger than any Western star,one thing, he was a star in the poor part of the earth. I can still remember Sweet Mother in Liberia, When I was just about 4 years. I travelled to Vietnam in 2003 and Australia in 2005. I heard Sweet being play on birth party and graduation in Vietnam. Eventhough, the people cannot understand the language in the music.He was really gifted. By putting pigen english together and love by the whole world. I need a little history about Nico mbarga, his birth place, early years in music. Father’s and Mother’s name

hey
thank you very much for this KILLER blog!
i would say you have a vast collection of records and i am thankful you share it with those who seek good tunes from around the world.

Best African track dedication to all loving mothers of the world, Africans, Chinese, Indians, Aborigines, English, red Indian and yours too. Beautiful long live Sweet Mothers.

Thank you so much for sharring you collection especially this gem..CAN YOU PLEASE RE-UP THE LINK PLEASE!!! thank you

A great star indeed he was, we African have to learned to tell and brand our own story. If we allow other people to tell our story for us, they will cherry pick, and tell it the way the see it and it will not be well narrated. Prince Nico Mbarga was more than only a Nigerian-Cameroonian born STAR.
Sweet Mother sold more copies than the Beetle’s I Want To Hold Your Hand. By the end of 1976, Sweet Mother had 13.8 million copies sold. I read this in BBC archive. If He was recording for audience in America, Europe or Australia, today his royalty would be in billions. Up to today’s date, Sweet Mother is widely play in Columbia, New Zealand, Brazil and other pats of the, more than years after its release date.