As the title would have it, Turbo-Hits '89 (Editions Haïssam-Records MH 112, 1989) is a collection of remixed makossa (and a couple...

The two major musical styles of Cameroun are bikutsi , centered around the capital city Yaoundé, and makossa , from the coastal metropol...

The "Patriarch of Bikutsi," Etoundi Aloa Javis, joined his ancestors  on November 6, 2017. Shortly before his death he was hon...

Before last week I'd heard of Camerounian chanteuse Catherine Edoa Ngoa, aka Kotino Ateba, aka "K-Tino," and her notoriou...

Making their first appearance here at Likembe are Les Veterans out of Cameroun, leading practitioners in the '80s of the rootsy, ...

Ken Abrams does it again with Cameroon Fever Vol. 1 , a tasty collection of tracks from that country, mostly from the golden '80s, when ...

By way of Makossa Original and Freemuse we receive the happy news that Camerounian musician Lapiro de Mbanga was freed April 8 after three...

Once again I'm forced to apologize for the infrequency of my posts lately. As usual, I have several projects in the hopper, but all kin...

Here, as promised, is Elimbi na Ngomo (Production TN, TN 591), Toto Guillaume's 1985 LP that is rightly considered a monument of the ma...

For many years I've wanted to know the identity of the Camerounian group Mensy, whose scorching tune "Ane Ya" opened up the 19...

Back in the 80s Toto Guillaume ("Toguy") was a ubiquitous session musician on recordings coming out of Cameroun. The great guitar...

With the kids back in school and monopolizing the computer, and me swamped under a ton of overtime, I just haven't been able to give thi...

As promised, here is African Divas Vol. 2 , originally posted last year as African Serenades Vol. 47b at Matsuli Music . I apologize for th...

Back in the mid-1980s if there was one musical style that rivaled Congo music in the hearts of Africans, it was makossa out of Cameroun. Giv...

Once upon a time many thought that Ali Baba would be the next big thing in African music. With his flashy stage show and eclectic, cosmopoli...