Happy New Year! Once again I must apologize for the infrequency of posts here on Likembe.  There is no one reason why the spirit hasn...

Taking care of some unfinished business today. . . Many thanks to Ken Chijar Ekezie, who provides us with Part Two of the exceedingly ra...

Back with a reminder of much, much happier days in Somalia, our good friend Sanaag passes on almost 80 minutes worth of music by the legenda...

Note: This post was updated with better-quality rips of the original vinyl on July 26, 2012. Our good friend Sanaag comes through onc...

Thanks to Roskow Kretschmann of Black Pearl Records for passing on a unique historical recording, the LP Somalia Sings Songs of the New Era...

If you like the music of Somalia's Iftin and Dur Dur , featured some time ago in this space, let me direct your attention to Andreas We...

I've got a couple of posts in the hopper that will be ready to go in a day or two, but I wanted to bring to your attention a couple of ...

I wrote in my first posting that through Likembe I sought to educate but also hoped to be educated. The response to the post Somali Myster...

( Note: This post was updated considerably on November 29, 2007. The MP3s were replaced with new stereo versions on November 30, 2007.) I...