Back in the early days of online file-sharing, the 1973 album Destruction (Orbitone OT 005) by the Nigerian group the Nkengas achieve...

As more evidence that the collectors' market for used African recordings has entered Dutch Tulip Mania territory, I present the f...

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 ...

When Nigerian highlife king Stephen Osita Osadebe passed on May 11 of this year, it could reasonably be said that an era died with him. Ap...