Africa Celebrates U2 With Benefit Compilation
Monday March 24, 2008 @ 03:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

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Bono does a lot for Africa through lobbying and charitable work, and the continent will return some love on April 1 via a Shout! Factory compilation titled In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2.

The album, produced by Shawn Amos and Paul Heck, features Grammy Award-winning African musicians Angelique Kidjo and The Soweto Gospel Choir as well as Les Nubians, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Vieux Farka Toure and Vusi Mahlasela interpreting U2 songs. It comes with extensive liner notes with demographic information on each artist's home country and the issues facing them.

A portion of the sales proceeds from the album will benefit The Global Fund, the world's largest international financier of the fight against HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2 was driven by Amos, who met Heck at a 2006 World AIDS Day benefit concert in Brooklyn, N.Y. Together, they quickly went into making the album through Shout! Factory/Universal Music Canada.

More information and song samples can be found here.

Here are the tracks on In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2:

• Angelique Kidjo — "Mysterious Ways"
• Vieux Farka Toure — "Bullet The Blue Sky"
• Ba Cissoko — "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
• Vusi Mahlasela — "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own"
• Tony Allen — "Where The Streets Have No Name"
• Cheikh Lo — "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
• Keziah Jones — "One"
• Les Nubians — "With Or Without You"
• Soweto Gospel Choir — "Pride (In The Name Of Love)"
• Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars — "Seconds"
• African Underground All-Stars featuring Chosan, Optimus and Iyeoka — "Desire"
• Waldemar Bastos — "Love Is Blindness"

—Jessica Lewis