Review of the Lyrics Website – Afrika Lyrics

                                            Website Review

WEBSITE:  www.afrikalyrics.com

CATEGORY: African music lyrics     

Afrika lyrics is a website founded and designed for the purpose of providing music lyrics from the sub-Saharan African countries mainly Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, DRC, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Senegal, Mali, Benin, Rwanda, Burundi among others.

The website is well designed with an amazing interface and simple menu buttons which make it easy to understand and make the users enjoy their time while navigating through it. There is an option of top lyrics where trending and most popular song lyrics are found. One is able to search for the content he or she likes using artist name, country, language, genre, and albums a feature that is very unique from other sites. They also have a Gospel category with many gospel songs across the African continent.

There is a search option where the user can type and search his or her favorite artist/song/albums and the search results are provided within seconds. The font size of the website is big enough to be read and colors are well blended and appealing to the user making it very beautiful. The artist images are fabulous and well designed with the correct lighting making then look good.

The languages include Swahili from East African countries such as Kenyan, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and some parts of DRC. Other languages include Twi from Ghana, Yoruba from Nigeria, Igbo from Nigeria, Lingala, Pidgin Kinyaranda, Wolof, Doualana, and many others. If you don’t know nor understand any of these languages, Afrika lyrics had got your back. Many of the song lyrics are translated from local languages to English and French making them understandable to many people across the world who don’t speak African language and therefore making our African music known well and understood across all parts of the world.

Lyrics are easy to find because they are sorted by genre, country, language, artist names and other categories. Afrika lyrics has a cool feature which enables one to read the lyrics while playing the song and provides albums too. That sounds amazing, right? There is an artist biography provided to the users to enable them to know more about their favorite artists and a link to popular artist’s bio is provided. A good example is Diamond Platinumz from Tanzania.

What do I like about the site?

• Beautiful interface that is appealing to the user and a user-friendly one which is simple to navigate
• Providing of artist bio thus allowing the user to know his or her favorite artist well
• Afrika lyrics provide a platform to our local artists thus growing their market and helping them sell themselves to the world which promotes local talent.
• Good search results that are accurate and timely.
• The organization of music according to the genre, language and country make it easy to find your song easily.
• Playing music while reading the lyrics which are translated to the language i understand is awesome to me. It helps reduce the burden of using other third-party applications and saves time.

What can be improved?

• The blank section on the homepage could make visitors jump to another site since one would think that the website has an error. I’d suggest that they put interesting that users would engage with once they land on the site.