The Lijadu Sisters - Mother Africa (2023)

Mother Africa (1977) was the Lijadu Sisters’s second studio album and released after their success with Danger. It “turned toward their Nigerian roots, featuring traditional talking drum, lyrics in Yoruba and highlife-style acoustic guitars” (The New York Times, 2019).

In a review for Pop Matters in 2012, writer Deanne Sole described the album as ”a surprise”, saying that it was ”tranquil, unhurried, musically noncombatative”, with ”a pair of voices rolling in harmony as though they were in church”.

It features a reworking of ”Iya Mi Jowo” (“Mother, Please”), their breakthrough song from 1969, which is ”sung by a daughter who wants to know what she has done to make her mother so distant and angry”, as Ms. Taiwo Lijadu retold many years later.

Tracklist:
01-01 The Lijadu Sisters - Osupa I [6:20]
01-02 The Lijadu Sisters - Iya Mi Jowo [6:36]
01-03 The Lijadu Sisters - Bayi L'ense [6:38]
01-04 The Lijadu Sisters - Orin Aro [7:18]
01-05 The Lijadu Sisters - Dibe Nuwa [5:44]
01-06 The Lijadu Sisters - Osupa II [5:37]