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Frank lesokwane is a Motswana musician who is famously known as Franco.He is known for producing most Kwasa Kwasa hit songs.Frank is also known for being the leader of the Franco and Afro Musica band which is a well performing band in Botswana.

Franco and Afro Musica is a twelve piece kwasa kwasa band from Gabane, Botswana.

The band was founded by Frank "Franco" Lesokwane.As is the norm in the soukous (Congolese rumba) circles for artists to go by more than one names, Lesokwane also goes by several other names like Stango, Molamu, Lepako and Chakala. After playing and providing vocals for other leading Kwasa kwasa bands in Botswana, Franco, together with Tanzania born lead guitarist, Shabani Mwanasande Yohana, formed the band and started touring the country.They recruited other soukous experts and recorded their first album, Ke lela le lona, which loosely translates to "I am crying with you".^[2]

Ke lela le lona is a tswana song dropped in 2001 by Franco,as the translation says "Im crying with you" the song was created to pass a message to the saddened people out there facing different kind of problems.After the release of the hit song "Ke lela le lona" Franco became one of the most successful artist back in 2001.^[3]

Sephiri se dule a tswana song by Franco meaning "the secret is out".He created this song more specially to pass a message to his fans that no matter what one does it won't stay in the dark forever,the song was created especially for those people who do bad deeds to inform them that it won't stay a secret forever one day it will be visible to others about who you are.

• Ke lela le lona (2001)
• Ba ntatola (2002)
• Robala Nnana (2003)
• O nyala leng (2004)
• Mmamane Robala (2005)
• Khutsanyana (2006)
• Spekere (2007)
• Koti Koti (2008)
• Baesekele (2009)
• sephiri se dule (2011)
• maja ka thata (2012)
• Ke Fela Pelo (2013)
• Ke lorile sengwe (2014)
• Zeng zeng ke eng (2015)
• Eya le nna Babilone (2017)
• Mene Mene Tekele (2018)^[4]

Frank Lesokwane received an award of being the best kwasa Kwasa artist of the year. He received this because he was the most motivating kwasa kwasa artist of the year.Franco was being highly appreciated for being the first Motswana musician who have released most of his abulms with about 18 albums.^[5]