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Illume Creative Studio is at it again. Last time they brought us Shad K, this time they caught up with Nigerian songstress, and OKA fav, Nneka when she came through Kigali, Rwanda in February 2012. Catch part 1 of "Illume Sessions: Nneka (In Her Own Words)" above, and part 2 below. Illume Creative Studio is an Afropolitan collective (self-proclaimed purveyors of awesome) "striving to be the change they want to see in Africa and the world." We're not mad at it.
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