It features Swedish Eurodance singer Leila K. The song is similar to Eddy Grant's "Hello Africa", but in the style of hip hop.

It peaked at number one in Austria and achieved a great success in most of the other European countries, including Sweden, Germany and Switzerland.

It was hard to get the song initially released, but the thing is that other DJs (who we gave it to before we had a record deal) played the track and liked it.

In his review of the Hello Afrika album, Larry Flick from Billboard commented, "Equally strong are the title track, a prideful tribal ode that features a nifty guest appearance by Leila K."[3] A reviewer from Music & Media wrote, "Pounding, tribal drums dominate this poppy rap for African unity.

They added, "This mixture of African tribal rhythms, Jamaican toasting and western house technology is already very big in Scandinavian and German clubs.