Bebe Cool

Available for 29 days

Bebe Cool has dominated airwaves and playlists in Uganda for 30 years. His best known hits include Fire, Africa Unite and his remix of Born in Africa, which BBC World Service listeners voted one of Africa’s greatest songs of all time in 2014. But his latest body of work, Break the Chains, embraces Afrobeats and adds a whole new sound to his usual reggae and ragga style tunes. For the first time, we hear Bebe Cool’s side of the story about the time in 2020 when he was accused of being behind the arrest of Nigerian superstars Tems and Omah Lay, after he publicly opposed them being let into Uganda to perform during the Covid lockdown.