Heya, I can help with a couple:
>Gilles: guiles (like beguiling) or jiles?
In London I have heard the Jiles version (with a hard J, not the
unvoiced French pronunciation)
>Dego: rhymes with ego, day-glo or lego?
Rhymes with Ego.
>Kadai Tatham: whafuck?
KAI-dee TAH-thm (sp: kaidi tatham)
>Modaji: "MOD-a-gee" or "Mo' dodgy?"
I have heard both Mo-da-Gee and Mo-Dai-gee, but I think the second
one is a little dyslexic. Not sure.
>Fela and Femi: How do you say "Kuti" without sounding
>like you're accusing them of having cooties?
I think this is okay. Fela's first name sounds exactly like the
Japanese slang for fellatio. Fela has taboo written all over him :)
>Nitin Sawney: I've been saying NEE-tin. eh???
I think it's NIT'n SAW-knee.
The rest are a total mystery to me as well.
Cheers,
.aaron shinn
>Bembe Segue: I kinda guessed at a portuguese-like
>pronunciation of "bemby seggy" but i think I'm
>mangling it.
>
>
>Nahawa Doumbia: It's the stress placement that's
>puzzling. The guy at the dub spot called it NA-ha-WA
>DOOM-bia.
>
>ok, I may post more as i think of them. in return, I
>can lend a hand with pronunciations that are
>definitely spanish or portuguese, like Grupo
>Batuque=GROO-poo ba-TWO-key. but a lot of these
>names, i can't even figure out if it's french, swahili
>or just some made-up shit.
>
>thanks!
>
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