User:Buja Bongo

Buja flava is the nickname for Burundian hip hop music. The genre developed in the 2000s, mainly as a derivative of American hip hop, with additional influences from Bongo Flava, R&B, afrobeat, dancehall, and traditional Burundian styles such as karyenda  and Inanga, a combination that forms a unique style of music.[1] Lyrics are usually in Kirundi or Swahili. The name "Buja flava" is a corruption of "Bujumbura flavour", where "Burundi" is the plural form of the Kirundi word Inanga, is a common nickname used to refer to Dar es Salaam, the city where the genre originated. In the buja flava, the metaphor of "Inanga" may additionally refer to the cunning and street smarts of Ubasera (see below).[2]