Pick of the Week - Bokete7 (Botswana)
A YouTube channel that provides "An intimate visual experience of daily living in Botswana" - and lots of music.
Dumelang.
Today's Pick of the Week is a little different. It features a YouTube channel, rather than a single artist. It's called Bokete7. According to some sources, "bokete" is Setswana for "heavy," but don't hold me to that.
The site provides "An intimate visual experience of daily living in Botswana." But the draw for me are the music videos, from Botswana and elsewhere in Africa. Especially the ones (lots of them) that feature Botswana's unique four-string guitarists.
The site had something of a viral success years ago with a video featuring the late Ronnie Moipolai, who appears in numerous videos at the channel. In the one embedded below, he and his brother manage the never-before-seen feat (?) of playing one guitar at the same time.
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