Acclaimed as one of Congo's greatest female singers, Tshala Muana over four decades in the business has emerged as the internati...

Footballer, guitarist and composer of many of the most memorable songs in Congolese music, Mayaula Mayoni (1946-2010) has often been ...

An often-overlooked item in the discography of Les Quatre Etoiles , 1988's Four Stars at the Kilimanjaro (Kilimanjaro International...

The all-female Gabonese choral group Missema was founded in the 1970s, apparently with some official sponsorship, with the purpose of p...

Ali and Tam's together with Orchestre Malo wrap up our retrospective look at three interesting Congolese LP's released in the...

Here is the second of three "unorthodox" Congolese albums released by the Swiss label Plainisphare in the mid-'80s. Nsimba...

Kinshasa! , by Kawende et ses Copains (Plainisphare ZONE Z1, 1984), was the first of three LPs released in the mid-'80s by the Swis...

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

I love this album cover! I love the music on the album! The group "Le Peuple" had its origins in a split from the legen...

Elizabeth Finant, better known as Abeti Masikini, or just "Abeti," was a pioneer of the Congolese music scene - one of the fi...

As promised in an earlier post , here are Volumes 5 and 6 of the series Rochereau Vols. 1-8 , released by Disco Stock in Abidjan in 1982...

Happy New Year! Bonne Année ! And here with us to celebrate the new year are Lokassa Ya M'Bongo, Sam Mangwana and the African All...

Théo Blaise Kounkou is one of those African musicians who, while building substantial careers and achieving popularity throughout Afr...

No sooner had I posted Likembe 's last offering then I realized that I had another, similar pressing. Orchestres Kamale et Kiam ...

Today's post covers some old ground - classic orchestras from the stable of wunderkind Kiamwuangana Mateta, aka "Verckys,...

Just about everyone in the United States who started collecting African music in the 1970s and '80s is familiar with the producti...