I present today four cassettes by Malam Maman Barkah, the Niger Republic's acclaimed master of two traditional instruments of tha...

I've been posting some of the many Hausa cassettes from northern Nigeria in my collection with a bit of anxiety. It's not a gen...

Together with Barmani Mai Coge and Alhaji Maman Shata , Dan Maraya Jos was a leading exemplar of the traditional music of the Hausa p...

Some years ago I discussed the former Benin Empire (not to be confused with the present-day "Republic of Benin"), its prem...

A while back I posted about northern Nigeria's greatest female singer, Barmani Mai Choge . I devote today's post to Alhaji Ma...

As readers may be aware, I've had a long-time interest in Nigerian music and feature it often here at Likembe . However, all of th...

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

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...