Newman sounds as weary and hollowed-out as this "hard city by the sea", considered one of many American cities sinking quick within the 1970s. In deft strokes, he depicts two of Baltimore’s victims, who "hide their eyes ‘cause the city’s dying they usually don’t know why," and the narrator’s fed-up household, packing their baggage for the country. In the dying days of its three-decade reign on the region they were two of Congolese Rumba’s most recognisable names. When Congo’s economy nose-dived and Kinshasa’s as soon as thriving music trade fell to destroy consequently, a lot of its music performers and producers emigrated to cities like Nairobi the place the demand for Congolese bands was high, as have been the prospects for an honest dwelling. In its Kiswahili reincarnation (Twende Nairobi) she shouts out the former president of Kenya, Daniel Arap Moi, who then lifted a ban he had positioned on foreign music being performed on Kenyan radio.
