Description
Visions of KMT — Malenga (2025)
Under the banner KWENTO XPR HNA SXM KM, Visions of KMT is the sensory counterpart to Ọheneba’s charge. If Make KMT Black Again was the horn blown at sunrise to summon the builders, this album is the walk through the city we’re reclaiming. It does not theorize recapturing KMT—it stands inside it. It sounds like the fabrics, the palm wine, the Kantanka’s on the road, the voices of the living and the returned. Malenga builds a parallel to the Dikenga cycle: dawn, growth, return, sunset. The music carries the weight of what recovering our world looks like in real time—physically, spiritually, intimately, communally.
Across the album, each track marks a step in the journey of restoring KMT: Ride It Out frames endurance as the first law of nation-building; Functional Hatred confronts foreign ways and centers protection of our own; Visions of KMT celebrates a Black Powerful world built on our terms; Retribution names the blood-debt owed to the Kmtyw and refuses compensation; Komplementarity and Better Than shape relationships and covenant as the foundation of Black homes; Ancestors Returned honors children as returned spirits charged with destiny; So Amazed witnesses abundance created by community; Simba Simbi enforces reciprocity; Waiting For challenges inaction; Work to Do commits to execution; Sunset re frames transition as continuation; and To Nana Olugbala salutes disciplined resistance and demands we pick up the work where our Grandcestors left off.
A full lyrics booklet is included for study and teaching, because this is music meant to be used: recited, annotated, translated, embodied.
Why it matters
- It imagines KMT not as nostalgia or museum glass, but as the world we rebuild—physically, culturally, spiritually.
- It trains the senses: what our cities, families, relationships, and futures should feel like.
- It teaches Dikenga as life practice: birth, purpose, union, transition.
- It marks the values of the Kmtyw—Sankɔfa, reciprocity, covenant, retribution, family, legacy.
Tracklist (Core Set)
Ride it Out • Functional Hatred • Visions of KMT • Retribution • Komplementarity • Better Than (ft. Ọheneba) • Ancestors Returned • So Amazed • Simba Simbi • Waiting For • Work to Do • Sunset • to Nana Olugbala (Assata Shakur)
Included: Album Lyrics Booklet
Imprint: KWENTO XPR HNA SXM KM
Directive: NOT TO BE SHARED ON CESSPOOL MEDIA PLATFORMS
![Tukula Life in the Sun - Eze Zimụzọ [2026]](https://media.abibitumi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/07135556/Tukula-500x500.png)
Nkanyezi –
If you have not had the opportunity to listen to Malenga or any of the albums and heartworks by The Kwentos, you have done yourself a disservice, just disrespectful to your listening, learning, and thriving pleasure. Not only is this album the music OUR communities have been waiting for, the lyrics are essential to renewing our Nation Building for now and generations to come. To be Kmtyw is to live by rhythm and purpose; that is the only alignment we should seek to be our best selves for oneself, one’s family, and one’s community. We live by rhythm and purpose in all that we do and speak. Malenga has brought back the rhythm and purpose of Kmtyw all over the world. This album had me in the car, not just nodding my head to the rhythm but also playing on my toddler’s mini djembe to the rhythm and purpose within the beat on my way to work. The music and the lyrics are a perfect marriage of rhythm and purpose. This is the music we have all been waiting for: the renewal of Abibfahodie and no more “music” for our self-destruction. Pwr to the Kmtyw!
Reno –
I was waiting to write this review on a more strategic date ahaa😄… Another banger by kreations. My Top 3
Work to do, ride it out, Simba Simbi. Can’t wait to jam to the whole album late night in the city in my Itaoua. Or my Kantanka in the village lol.
Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé –
Greetings Reno! 😂 We love the strategic-timing confession—and we love that the project is still hitting like a banger. “Work to do,” “Ride it out,” “Simba Simbi” as your top 3 is a serious list. May the late-night city ride (and the village vibes) make the whole album land even deeper!
— Abibitumi Team | ABIBITUMI! ABIBIFAHODIE!
Tamara –
Beautiful and soulful.
This Kreation lives up to its album name, as this composition is easy to envision while listening.
Great work!
Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé –
Greetings Tamara! Thank you—“beautiful and soulful” is exactly the spirit of this Transformation. We love that the sound paints a full vision for you while listening; that’s the goal. Meda wo ase for taking time to leave this.
— Abibitumi Team | ABIBITUMI! ABIBIFAHODIE!