Take a long listen to Toronto band Tennisxclub. This song has a great Afro-based beat with fresh and memorable lyrics which burn your ears like the noonday sun, then stay with you through all the hours of the cloudless, peaceful, equatorial night.
“Motherland” is first and foremost an ode to the righteous continent of Africa. It is also a celebration of the irresistibility of the global Pan-African woman.
Tennisxclub channel the romantic eloquence of George Gordon, Lord Byron who wrote:
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.”
Tennisxclub say the same thing in modern vernacular when they employ this catchy lyrical truth to describe the great power of African women rising:
“Haram in the sheets, halal in the street, you just what I need.”
