Wiyaala

Wiyaala, which means “the doer” in her local Sissala dialect, is from Funsi, an African village in the Upper West Region of Ghana close to the borders of Burkina Faso and Cote D’Ivoire. Her music is a fusion of West African Folk songs and stadium Afro-Pop informed by traditional West African storytelling, brought to life with spectacularly energetic traditional dance moves.  Despite growing up in a patriarchal society frequently hostile to artistic growth, Wiyaala attracted attention as a Child...Read more