The Very Best of Osibisa

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The Very Best of Osibisa
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Compilation album by
Released2001
Length2:03:00
Label Prestige
Osibisa chronology
Best of V. 1
(2001)
The Very Best of Osibisa
(2001)
Millennium Collection
(2002)

The Very Best of Osibisa is a 3-CD set unauthorised compilation bringing together three Osibisa's albums: Welcome Home, Ojah Awake and Africa We Go Go, released in 2001 by Prestige Records under catalog #205886-349. Do not confuse with other compilations released under the same name, such as "The Very Best of Osibisa" released in 2009 by Golden Stool label.

Contents

Track listing

CD 1: 40:41

  1. "Sunshine Day" - 5:00
  2. "Welcome Home" - 4:18
  3. "Densu" - 5:22
  4. "Choboi" - 5:08
  5. "Do It" - 4:24
  6. "Right Now" - 3:11
  7. "Seaside Meditation" - 5:17
  8. "Uhuru" - 3:27
  9. "Kolomashie" - 4:34

CD 2: 40:32

  1. "Coffee Song" - 3:15
  2. "The Warrior" - 3:45
  3. "Flying Bird" - 4:49
  4. "Cherry Field" - 4:27
  5. "Dance The Body Music" - 3:49
  6. "Ojah Awake" - 4:56
  7. "Keep On Trying" - 5:26
  8. "Hamattan" - 6:06
  9. "Sakabo" - 3:59

CD 3: 41:47

  1. "Time Is Right" - 5:32
  2. "Get Up" - 5:22
  3. "Gumbe" - 4:46
  4. "Soldier" - 3:29
  5. "Jumbo" - 1:36
  6. "Abele" - 3:55
  7. "Kyrie Eleison" - 6:24
  8. "Africa We Go Go" - 4:16
  9. "Lost Fisherman" - 2:35
  10. "Sakura" - 3:52

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