“Faraway” arrives as a warm-pulse Afropop single from Cameroonian singer Sabrina (Wamba Kuegou Sabrina Ruth), released 27 June 2025 via Afrobit Productions and later folded into her August 2025 album Freely.
Sabrina is a composer-lyricist on the track alongside collaborators, with Sparrq credited as producer, and Michael “SynX” as mixer.
The official video arrived 21 August 2025, teased by Sabrina as “a love story in motion.”
Fans have noted the clip’s futuristic, stylised look, and a portfolio upload labels it an AI video, though Sabrina’s roll-out doesn’t credit a director or specify technique.
Either way, it treats the song’s distance theme as something tender and cinematic, keeping the focus on connection.
The record sits in mid-tempo Afropop with a tactile, hand-played feel: a steady quarter-note heartbeat, frame-drum-style clave, swirls of hand percussion, and classic drum-kit touches that keep the groove buoyant without crowding the vocal.
Compared to Sabrina’s more club-ready moments in 2024, for example, the Amapiano-leaning “Pullover,” “Faraway” dials back the low-end thump in favour of an easy sway, closer to pan-regional Afropop than piano-house.
Sabrina sings it like a conversation that keeps returning to the same promise.
The hook leans on a simple loop, “Faraway no fit go faraway from you,” and she colours it with airy doubles and soft calls that sit just above the percussion bed.
Her phrasing mixes Kamtok (Cameroon Pidgin English) with standard English.
Words like “sufree sufree” and the modal “go” read as Kamtok markers, placing the song squarely in Cameroonian speech rhythms rather than generic West African pop.
Linguists label Kamtok as Cameroon Pidgin English; it’s widely used as a lingua franca.
It’s a distance-love song written to close the gap. Sabrina keeps returning to a promise to stay close, using sweet, tactile lyrics as metaphors that travel: “Make I dey your body tattoo” and “This your love di carry me go far away.”
The “sweet pass sukus” tag is a neat cultural wink: Soukous (often spelled “sukus” in colloquial use) is Congolese dance music associated with sweetness, motion, and guitar sparkle.
The comparison implies a love that out-sweetens dancefloor sugar.
Even the pop-culture nods are chosen for warmth over bravado. “The love strong like Mufasa” is an accessible simile that keeps the mood affectionate.
Taken as a whole, the lyric uses everyday language to sketch commitment, and it works precisely because it resists overwriting.
As of 3 Sept 2025, the Visualizer is sitting around 5.5M views and the Official Video around ~2M across Sabrina’s channel and Afrobit’s uploads.
CHILLFILTR praised “Faraway” as “a fun and light dance number” and highlighted the classic percussion palette and Kamtok flavour as part of its charm.
Ghana Plug’s write-up framed the single as a heartfelt, melodically rich bridge into Freely, underscoring how Sabrina’s narrative of distance and longing sits inside her broader Afropop identity.
Sabrina is part of a younger Cameroonian cohort blending Afropop, Afrobeats, and Amapiano touches, signed to Afrobit Productions and active since 2020.
Earlier highlights include “Abele” with Koffi Olomidé and the cross-regional single “Five Star” with Martins.
“Faraway” is Sabrina in soft focus: conversational Kamtok lines, a hook you can hum after one pass, and percussion that invites a shoulder-lean rather than a stomp. It’s not trying to be the biggest song in the room.
It’s trying to feel close. On those terms, it works, and it slots neatly into Freely as the gentle, human centre of a cross-border Afropop record.
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