NATAB Reimagines Protest Music with “we need the children most”

Folk collective Nana and The Asafo Brigade (NATAB) return with their most heartfelt and visionary body of work yet — we need the children most, out November 12, 2025, on all streaming platforms.

Following their acclaimed projects They Hunted The Land and There’s A Fire On The Mountain, NATAB continues to expand the sound and spirit of African Folk — fusing ancestral rhythm, reggae, and soul into a living archive of hope, memory, and collective transformation.

Spanning nine tracks and featuring Narah, Dela, Anabel Rose, Ara Muzicc, and dina.miin, we need the children most extends NATAB’s tradition of collaboration and community-driven storytelling. Its three pre-released singles — be urself, brighter days, and joy — have collectively surpassed 153,200 global streams, earning placements on Spotify Africa, Apple Music, and Audiomack. Together, these songs mark a creative high point for the Ghanaian-Canadian collective and reaffirm NATAB’s place as one of the most distinctive and forward-looking voices in contemporary African Folk music.

But this project is more than music — it’s a movement. we need the children most stands as a living archive of love, loss, and renewal, a sonic world where healing is collective and memory is revolutionary. This is protest music reborn — not through anger, but through tenderness.