Mono Mono

Mono Mono (sometimes known as MonoMono) was a band formed in Lagos, Nigeria in 1971 by Sierra Leone-born Joni Haastrup (lead vocals, keyboards), Baba Kenneth Okolulo (bass, vocals), and Danjuma "Jimi Lee" Adamu (guitars, vocals). Other members included Friday Jumbo and Candido Obajimi. They produced a handful of singles and two full length LP's. Soundway Records reissued the first two MonoMono records in 2011: 1972’s Give the Beggar a Chance (EMI) and 1974’s The Dawn of Awareness (Capitol). Monomono's sound became popular among Nigeria's middle class youth. The band split apart in 1975 or 1976. "Monomono" is Yoruba for "lightning".
==Links to Peel==
In 1973 Ginger Baker returned to the UK from Nigeria, resulting in a BBC TV Omnibus documentary called 'Ginger Baker In Africa', which followed his travels across the continent to explore its music. Around the same time, he gave Peel a series of African sessions recorded by various Nigerian artists, which one of them, Mono Mono, recorded at his recording studio in Nigeria. The sessions including Mono Mono, were broadcast on Sounds Of The Seventies as the 'Lagos Sessions' throughout July of that year.
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: unknown. First Broadcast: 03 July 1973
*Make (Them) You Realise / Awareness
==Other Shows Played==
*None, according to available tracklistings on this site
== See Also ==
*Sounds
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists