“Zouzou”, Dobet Gnahoré | Le Devoir

Honestly, the singer with the warm timbre Dobet Gnahoré, star of Ivorian pop, offers an album that should escape criticism. It is that after having lived in France for several years, the time that her international career takes off, the singer-songwriter returned to Abidjan with a mission: to found an orphanage, announced with this new album in which we would be embarrassed to find fault. Zouzoua word that means “angel,” is “dedicated to the youth who represent the future of the continent.” The youthful impulse can even be heard in the musical style of this album produced by Ivorian composer Momo Wang, collaborator of Aya Nakamura, among other stars of the new West African pop. Pop and fresh on the heady Ayokaon the cadence Hopeon the quasi-disco hijacking of Dobet (and a little too house on Gni), this new album does not cause the spectacular Gnahoré to deviate from her musical trajectory combining local rhythms and international pop ambition.

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