Janka Nabay: The Bubu King of Sierra Leone

Janka Nabay is known in his native Sierra Leone as the Bubu King.

Bubu is a kind of high-energy music.

Nabay fled the aftermath of Sierra Leone’s civil war and he is now in the US, with a new band, playing the music from home.

Mirissa Neff has his story.

Schedule: Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang at SXSW.