Janka Nabay has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 23 episodes and was first played on 6 November 2013.

Ahmed Janka Nabay (January 5, 1964 - April 2, 2018) was a Sierra Leonean musician who has been a major figure in Bubu Music, a traditionally Temne music which is played by up to 20 musicians blowing into bamboo pipes of different sizes.

He first earned attention after performing for an audition of SuperSound. Janka Nabay recorded his album in Forensic Studios in Freetown during the Sierra Leonean Civil War. Since moving to Washington, D.C. in 2003, Janka Nabay has continued to play…