I've written here before that twenty years ago I accumulated an archive of about 24 hours worth of East African music on 10" tape r...

Like Comb and Razor , I seem to be experiencing some difficulty managing to get a post up, not, as in Uchenna's case, because I'm te...

Guitarist Mose Se Sengo "Fan Fan" was a crucial member of Franco's Orchestre TPOK Jazz from 1967 to 1972. In that year he lef...

Note: This post was updated on September 20, 2008, to incorporate comments by reader/listener Iman . In response a to a request from reader/...

I have a number of posts that are just on the threshold of going up, but I seem to have been gripped by an inexplicable and debilitating ca...

As you would expect this time of year, things have been super hectic around here, and I just haven't had time to post. There's not ...

Taarab , the intoxicating Afro-Arab-Indian music from the East African coast, has been surprisingly available lately, if you know where to ...

Note: This post was updated on September 20, 2008 to incorporate a translation of the song "Marashi ya Pemba" by reader/listener...

A reader/listener requested some music by Mbaraka Mwinshehe, and I'm more than happy to oblige! Mwinshehe was the great Tanzanian guit...

With our laptop out of commission for a while, the household is down to one functional computer, which the kids have commandeered for their ...

Swahili music was terra incognita to me until one day in the summer of 1984. I was visiting Edmund Ogutu, a Kenyan friend of mine. He...