Some time ago I devoted a post to music from the Efik and Ibibio peoples of southeastern Nigeria. For some reasoin I overlooked today...

If you've been around here a while you'll know that I have a major obsession with the 1967-70 war in Nigeria, when the Eastern Re...

I'll admit to being a little mystified by the current fascination with the cheesier byways of African music - '70s and '80s Afro...

Once again our friend Rainer has come through with an exceedingly rare artifact from the golden age of Nigerian highlife music, in this ca...

Note: This post was updated on October 4, 2009. My post "Divided Loyalties" inspired an anonymous reader to make available an in...

The recent dénouement of the 25-year Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka was reminiscent in many ways of the end of the Biafran war in Nigeria in...

People seemed to enjoy the Ibibio tunes I put up in a previous post , so I thought it would be fruitful to return to the area, namely the...

Note: This post was updated and corrected on January 4, 2009. Back in the early '90s I got it into my head that I would like to become ...

Ikoro's '70 Special (Philips West Africa 6386008) by Dan Satch and the Professional Atomic 8 Band is an album I've been intrigue...