Yvonne Kushe, a girl with an unmatched talent that will blow your mind, comes with a well-crafted piece called ‘Take You To Africa’. She croons, Yvonne; croons and hums with her sullen voice against a laidback instrumentation and she does it rightfully well. The video, though, screams the title. It mirrors the title and brings to fore Africa’s serene and greenery, sauna and flora.
It opens up with a familiar scene, for those who spent their childhood in the village, with Yvonne (she is alone in this 2.3 minute piece) with a bunch of firewood patched on her head as she sashays away on the village feeder road. A typical African scenery as she, like the title, takes you to Africa.
She playfully takes you on the journey to her home area-Kiruhuura. Long-horned cows can be seen yawning and mulling over the farmland. With a microphone thrust in her face amidst the farm, Kushe croons and enchants you to a delightful melodic track. The setup doesn’t, even for a rushed bat of an eyelid, take you off the face of Africa. It mirrors what Africa is all about even though it is a love song. The sun, at some point, sinks in the earth as it leaves an orange glow illuminating the vicinity. Beautiful. I am sure Kushe must have had a boatful of fun with this. Perhaps it was a vacation and she thought, hell, we can do this.
In the video, as a typical African girl–a Muhiima–she strips off the urbanite traits, collects herself down, shoves her head in the cows udder area and milks with fluidity as though she does it every day. That scene, itself, takes it home.
She chooses not to follow the common, tired still, way where tacky looking girls with heavy makeup brandishing bottles of gin and smoking chains and stuff like that in most videos. She decides to do something different, fresh like an apple bite; unadulterated too with a skillful touch of an unseen being behind the camera who manages to capture exciting angles. Good song. Excellent video.
Reviewed by: BigEye Staff
