Balkans Affairs

Located in Berlin with roots in ex – Yugoslavia, BA will contribute to the global reggae community with its versatile and unique approach influenced by Jamaican 80's digital and rub-a-dub revolution.

Tonto Addi - Toussaint Louverture

Tonto Addi comes one more time with cultural lyrics, telling the story of the great Toussaint Louverture, the general who led the Haitian revolution.

There is a huge number lot of reggae songs which speak about many different historical freedom fighters, but very few are dealing with the story of this major figure, with the same silence approach in school education and media.

Lyrics Video

Jamaican Patois, known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) and called Jamaican Creole by linguists, is an English-based creole language with West African influences spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora; it is spoken by the majority of Jamaicans as a native language. Patois developed in the 17th century when slaves from West and Central Africa were exposed to, learned, and nativized the vernacular and dialectal forms of English spoken by the slaveholders. Not everybody can understand Jamaican Patois and since topic is very important, lyrics video is great solution for understanding every word in the song.