Azɔ Mawu Paix des cœurs from Benin
Benin is the place given for Azɔ Mawu, Paix des cœurs, presented in Fon and performed by the artist & Chorale Azɔ. AFRIKANA classifies the track under African Gospel and Spiritual Voices and records its tempo as 72 beats per minute.
The platform’s description frames the piece as a contemporary Fon prayer that honours Beninese spiritual heritage, and it names kora, mellow piano, light percussion and a warm choir among the song’s textures. The listing also signals a mood described as calm and recovery.
Benin as the song’s address
AFRIKANA places the song squarely in Benin. That designation appears in the listing and in the genre tags that situate it within African Gospel and prayer songs. The country name is the explicit geographic anchor the track is given.
Related titles on AFRIKANA that share Fon show how the platform groups language and place: Alèkè Gbè and Gàn Wè are listed alongside Azɔ Mawu with Fon as a common element. This keeps Benin visible across several neighbouring entries on the site.
What the listing does not give is more granular. It does not specify a recording city in Benin, a date, or production credits beyond the artist name. It also does not identify which communities within Benin the prayer comes from or how it circulates there.
Fon prayer and the choir’s role
The song is sung in Fon. AFRIKANA describes it as a prayer song that invites inner peace and communal healing, with the choir explicitly named as part of the performance: Chorale Azɔ appears in the artist credit.
Voices are therefore central to the track’s identity as presented. The description highlights warm choir voices and locates the song in a spiritual, meditative register. No lyrics are printed in the listing, and no translation is offered, so the text of the prayer cannot be quoted or examined here.
Because the listing emphasises communal healing, the choir’s presence is a logical focal point. The platform’s brief notes make clear the choir is part of the concept, but they do not detail vocal arrangements, leaders or whether the choir represents a church, a community ensemble or another formation.
Tempo, textures named and what remains open
The track’s tempo is given as 72 BPM. That single figure is stated in the listing and acts as a measurable feature of the song’s pacing on AFRIKANA. The descriptive tags pair this tempo with a mood label: calm and recovery.
Textures are also named: soft kora, mellow piano, light percussion and a warm choir appear in the platform description. AFRIKANA’s video page for Azɔ Mawu, Paix des cœurs repeats these elements in its title and description, which is the source for the instrumentation and mood language used on the site.
At the same time, several production details are absent from the presentation. There is no producer credit, no recording location within Benin, no release date and no lyric translation. The listing therefore offers a clear sense of language, tempo and named textures while leaving the song’s local provenance and production history open.
You can find the piece on the AFRIKANA app where the platform offers streaming of African radio and songs on mobile. The way the track is paired with other Fon-language titles on the site keeps Benin and Fon in view, while the gaps about provenance remain an open question.