← Back to the jukebox

▶ VideoOpen on YouTube ↗

Where to listen

Amazon MP3 iTunes YouTube

Song · 1982 · Pop rock

Africa

1982

★ 7.4 editorial score

Steve Porcaro layered the kalimba riff on a Yamaha GS-1; Paich wrote about a continent he had never visited.

Genre

Pop rock Synthpop World music Pop

Subject

More songs

Other recordings that share an artist, a genre, or a subject with this one.

Rosanna

1982

Another song byPerson·Toto

Hold the Line

1978

Another song byPerson·Toto

We Are the WorldUSA for Africa

We Are the World

1985

Another song aboutSubject·Africa

You Can Call Me Al

1986

Another song ofGenre·World music

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·Africa

Quote · 1938

“The African is conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom for ever. He realizes that he must fight unceasingly for his own emancipation; for without this he is doomed to remain the prey of rival imperialisms.”

Jomo Kenyatta

Book · 1937

Isak Dinesen

Book · 1998

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild